separable
"separable" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“separable” is an uncommon English word, ranked #52,624 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #52,624
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Able to be separated.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | separable |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,624 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “separable” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for separable is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #52,624 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for separable, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English separable, from Middle French separable and its etymon Latin sēparābilis. The correct English form is separable, spelled S-E-P-A-R-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Able to be separated.
- 2Able to be brought to a form where all occurrences of the dependent and the independent variable are on opposite sides of the equal sign.
- 3Having a countable dense subset.
- 4Any of several technical senses relating to the behavior of polynomials or objects over which polynomials can be defined:
- 5Any of several technical senses relating to the behavior of polynomials or objects over which polynomials can be defined:
- 6Any of several technical senses relating to the behavior of polynomials or objects over which polynomials can be defined:
- 7Any of several technical senses relating to the behavior of polynomials or objects over which polynomials can be defined:
Etymology
From Middle English separable, from Middle French separable and its etymon Latin sēparābilis.
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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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Using “separable”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-E-P-A-R-A-B-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.