selectable
/sɪˈlɛktəbl̩/
"selectable" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“selectable” is uncommon English (frequency #50,217 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,217
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capable of being selected.
Corpus desk
Index EN-selectable · selectable · English
selectable · rank #50,217 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,217
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Selig
Nearest frequency peer: Selig (+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 “selectable”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- screensaver
screensaver
49,788 corpus weight
- seder
seder
49,786 corpus weight
- selectable
selectable
49,784 corpus weight
- Selig
Selig
49,783 corpus weight
- Selwyn
Selwyn
49,782 corpus weight
- semaphore
semaphore
49,781 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “selectable” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | selectable |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /sɪˈlɛktəbl̩/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #50,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “selectable” in English
Rare enough to double-check
selectable is uncommon English at frequency #50,217 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /sɪˈlɛktəbl̩/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Capable of being selected.".
No misspelling variants are generated for selectable 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, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From select + -able. The correct English form is selectable, spelled S-E-L-E-C-T-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Capable of being selected.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how selectable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
After the depth range is clamped, the depth value is read from the depth stencil buffer, and the two values are compared with a selectable depth-comparison function […]
Etymology
From select + -able.
This word in other languages
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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