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recallable

adjective

recallable is an adjective meaning “Capable of being recalled (retrieved from one's memory)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-C-A-L-L-A-B-L-E, and it appears about once in every 56 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does recallable mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Capable of being recalled (retrieved from one's memory).

    The number of recallable words from the list was much smaller after 24 hours.

  2. 2

    Capable of being recalled (brought back from service etc.).

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

How common is recallable?

Recallable appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th 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).

Recallable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Capable of being retrieved from one's memory:

LanguageWords
Frenchrappelable, souvenable

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 recallable come from?

From recall + -able.

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