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provability

noun

provability is a noun meaning “The condition of being provable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-R-O-V-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 54 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of provability is provabilities.

What does provability mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The condition of being provable

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of provability

  • provabilities plural
  • proveability

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is provability?

Provability appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th 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).

Provability in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense condition of being provable:

LanguageWords
GermanBeweisbarkeit

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 provability come from?

From prove + -ability.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).