reasonable
rea·son·able/ˈɹiː.zə.nə.bəl/adjective
reasonable is spelled R-E-A-S-O-N-A-B-L-E, 3 syllables: rea·son·able. The wrong spelling people search most is resonable: about 110 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 14 of all searches for the word. Reasonable is an adjective meaning “Just; fair; agreeable to reason”.
How many letters and syllables are in reasonable?
| Letters | 10: R-E-A-S-O-N-A-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: rea·son·able |
| In writing | 39 times per million words; the 2,523rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, resonable, about 110 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 reasonable?
Reasonable is spelled R-E-A-S-O-N-A-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for reasonable 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 reasonable?
Reasonable appears 39 times per million words in written English, the 2,523rd 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 reasonable?
- UK /ˈɹiː.zə.nə.bəl/
- UK [ˈɹiː.zə.nə.bɫ̩]
- UK /ˈɹiːz.nə.bəl/
Reasonable has 3 syllables, split rea·son·able in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-reasonable.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of reasonable
- more reasonable comparative
- most reasonable superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does reasonable mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
archaicHaving the faculty of reason; rational, reasoning.
- 2
Just; fair; agreeable to reason.
- 3
Not excessive or immoderate; within due limits; proper.
a reasonable demand, amount, or price
- 4
Not expensive; fairly priced.
$20 a bottle is very reasonable for a good wine at a restaurant.
- 5
Satisfactory.
The builders did a reasonable job, given the short notice.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Reasonable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | correct, juste, raisonnable , satisfaisant |
| German | vernünftig , angemessen , anständig |
| Portuguese | razoável, sensato , satisfatório , em conta |
| Spanish | razonable , módico |
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 reasonable come from?
From Middle English resonable, from Old French resnable, from Classical Latin ratiōnābilis, from ratiō. By surface analysis, reason + -able. Doublet of rationable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).