patentable
"patentable" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“patentable” is uncommon English (frequency #78,924 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,924
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Able to be protected by a patent; for which a patent can be granted.
Corpus desk
Index EN-patentable · patentable · English
patentable · rank #78,924 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,924
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH patellar
Nearest frequency peer: patellar (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “patentable”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- parolee
parolee
21,082 corpus weight
- patellar
patellar
21,078 corpus weight
- patentable
patentable
21,077 corpus weight
- Patroclus
Patroclus
21,076 corpus weight
- patronus
patronus
21,075 corpus weight
- Peekskill
Peekskill
21,073 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “patentable” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patentable |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #78,924 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “patentable” in English
Rare enough to double-check
patentable is uncommon English at frequency #78,924 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Able to be protected by a patent; for which a patent can be granted.".
No misspelling variants are generated for patentable in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From patent + -able. The correct English form is patentable, spelled P-A-T-E-N-T-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Able to be protected by a patent; for which a patent can be granted.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how patentable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The funding gap is not the sole, or primary reason so few drugs are approved. Whether a product is patentable, and therefore profitable for a pharmaceutical company, is a major determinant in the rate at which it will proceed along the NIH process.
Etymology
From patent + -able.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).