peaceable
/ˈpiːsəb(ə)l/adjective
peaceable is spelled P-E-A-C-E-A-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is peacable: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Peaceable is an adjective meaning “Favouring peace rather than conflict; not aggressive, tending to avoid violence (of people, actions etc.)”.
How many letters and syllables are in peaceable?
| Letters | 9: P-E-A-C-E-A-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 59,387th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, peacable, about 50 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell peaceable?
Peaceable is spelled P-E-A-C-E-A-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for peaceable in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is peaceable?
Peaceable appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 59,387th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce peaceable?
- UK /ˈpiːsəb(ə)l/
Peaceable has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-peaceable.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of peaceable
- more peaceable comparative
- most peaceable superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does peaceable mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Favouring peace rather than conflict; not aggressive, tending to avoid violence (of people, actions etc.).
- 2
Characterized by peace; peaceful, tranquil.
Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head ….
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Peaceable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | friedliebend |
| Spanish | pacifista , pacífico, apacible |
| French | paisible |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does peaceable come from?
From Anglo-Norman pesible, peisible, Middle French paisible, from pais (“peace”) + -ible; later remodelled after peace + -able.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).