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relatability

noun

relatability is a noun meaning “The quality of being relatable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-L-A-T-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of relatability is relatabilities.

What does relatability mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The quality of being relatable.

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

Forms of relatability

  • relatabilities plural

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

How common is relatability?

Relatability appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 138,319th 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).

Relatability in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense quality of being relatable:

LanguageWords
Portugueserelacionabildade

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 relatability come from?

From relate + -ability.

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