separable
adjective
separable is spelled S-E-P-A-R-A-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is separatable: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Separable is an adjective meaning “Able to be separated”.
How many letters and syllables are in separable?
| Letters | 9: S-E-P-A-R-A-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 52,337th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, separatable, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell separable?
Separable is spelled S-E-P-A-R-A-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for separable in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is separable?
Separable appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 52,337th 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).
How do you pronounce separable?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-separable.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of separable
- more separable comparative
- most separable superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does separable mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Able to be separated.
- 2
Able to be brought to a form where all occurrences of the dependent and the independent variable are on opposite sides of the equal sign.
- 3
Having a countable dense subset.
- 4
Having no repeated roots (where roots are considered in an algebraic closure)
x²#43;1 is separable, since its roots are i and -i.
- 5
obsoleteSuch that none of the irreducible factors of P have a repeated root.
- 6
Such that the minimal polynomial of every element of E is a separable polynomial.
- 7
Satisfying any of several technical conditions on the center of the algebra which generalize the situation of field extensions; see Separable algebra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Separable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | separabel, trennbar , separierbar |
| Portuguese | separável |
| Spanish | separable |
| French | séparable |
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 separable come from?
From Middle English separable, from Middle French separable and its etymon Latin sēparābilis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).