predictable
/pɹəˈdɪktəbləl/adjective, noun
predictable is spelled P-R-E-D-I-C-T-A-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is predicatble: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 47 of all searches for the word. Predictable is an adjective meaning “Able to be predicted”.
How many letters and syllables are in predictable?
| Letters | 11: P-R-E-D-I-C-T-A-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.8 times per million words; the 10,196th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, predicatble, about 10 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 predictable?
Predictable is spelled P-R-E-D-I-C-T-A-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 47 of the searches for predictable 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 predictable?
Predictable appears 5.8 times per million words in written English, the 10,196th 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 predictable?
- /pɹəˈdɪktəbləl/
- /pɹiˈdɪktəbləl/
Predictable has 4 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-predictable.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of predictable
- predictables plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does predictable mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Able to be predicted.
a predictable mathematical pattern
noun
- 1
A predictable thing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Predictable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense able to be predicted:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | prédictible, prévisible |
| German | vorhersagbar, prädiktabel |
| Portuguese | previsível, predizível |
| Spanish | predecible, predictible, previsible |
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 predictable come from?
From predict + -able.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).