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quotable

/ˈkwəʊtəbəl/adjective

quotable is spelled Q-U-O-T-A-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is quoteable: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Quotable is an adjective meaning “Capable or worthy of being quoted”.

How many letters and syllables are in quotable?

Letters8: Q-U-O-T-A-B-L-E
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 54,808th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, quoteable, about 20 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 quotable?

Quotable is spelled Q-U-O-T-A-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for quotable in either form.

quotablethe right spelling60 searches a month
quoteablean extra e20 searches a month

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 quotable?

Quotable appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 54,808th 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 quotable?

  • /ˈkwəʊtəbəl/

Quotable 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-quotable.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of quotable

  • more quotable comparative
  • most quotable superlative

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

What does quotable mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Capable or worthy of being quoted

    a quotable writer

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

Where does quotable come from?

From quote + -able.

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

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