repayable
"repayable" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“repayable” is uncommon English (frequency #95,339 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,339
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Able to be repaid.
Corpus desk
Index EN-repayable · repayable · English
repayable · rank #95,339 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,339
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH reoffending
Nearest frequency peer: reoffending (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “repayable”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- recoiling
recoiling
4,670 corpus weight
- refi
refi
4,666 corpus weight
- reoffending
reoffending
4,663 corpus weight
- repayable
repayable
4,662 corpus weight
- resolver
resolver
4,659 corpus weight
- Riegel
Riegel
4,656 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “repayable” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repayable |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “repayable” in English
Rare enough to double-check
repayable is uncommon English at frequency #95,339 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for repayable in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From repay + -able. The correct English form is repayable, spelled R-E-P-A-Y-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Able to be repaid.
- 2to be repaid; owing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how repayable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
. I owe her a debt not repayable for how she has reared William.
The debt for being alive, the debt for being loved is only repayable by mercy.
Etymology
From repay + -able.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).