polarizability
noun
polarizability is spelled P-O-L-A-R-I-Z-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is polarizibility: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 14 of all searches for the word. Polarizability is a noun meaning “The relative tendency of a system of electric charges to become polarized in the presence of an external…”. The plural of polarizability is polarizabilities.
How many letters and syllables are in polarizability?
| Letters | 14: P-O-L-A-R-I-Z-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 32 million words; the 173,967th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, polarizibility, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 polarizability?
Polarizability is spelled P-O-L-A-R-I-Z-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for polarizability 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 polarizability?
Polarizability appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th 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).
Forms of polarizability
- polarizabilities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does polarizability mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The relative tendency of a system of electric charges to become polarized in the presence of an external electric field.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does polarizability come from?
From polarize + -ability.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).