salvageable
adjective
salvageable is an adjective meaning “Capable of being salvaged, saved or repaired. Worth rescuing and keeping rather discarding or replacing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-A-L-V-A-G-E-A-B-L-E and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 5 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does salvageable mean?
adjective
- 1
Capable of being salvaged, saved or repaired. Worth rescuing and keeping rather discarding or replacing.
The car wasn't salvageable after the engine fire. The insurance company totalled it and I bought a new one.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce salvageable?
Salvageable has 4 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).
Forms of salvageable
- more salvageable comparative
- most salvageable superlative
- salvagable
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is salvageable?
Salvageable appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,055th 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).
Salvageable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense capable of being salvaged:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | récupérable, sauvable |
| German | zu retten |
| Spanish | salvable, rescatable, recuperable, reutilizable, restaurable |
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 salvageable come from?
From salvage + -able.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).