serviceable
/ˈsɝvɪsəbl̩/adjective
serviceable is spelled S-E-R-V-I-C-E-A-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is servicable: about 120 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Serviceable is an adjective meaning “Easy to service”.
How many letters and syllables are in serviceable?
| Letters | 11: S-E-R-V-I-C-E-A-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 30,017th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, servicable, about 120 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 serviceable?
Serviceable is spelled S-E-R-V-I-C-E-A-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for serviceable 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 serviceable?
Serviceable appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,017th 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 serviceable?
- US /ˈsɝvɪsəbl̩/
- UK /ˈsɜːvɪsəbl̩/
Serviceable 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-serviceable.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of serviceable
- more serviceable comparative
- most serviceable superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does serviceable mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Easy to service.
- 2
Repairable instead of disposable.
- 3
In condition for use.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Serviceable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | entretenable, serviable , réparable , prêt à l'emploi, utilisable |
| German | brauchbar, nutzerfreundlich, praktisch , reparierbar, reparaturfreundlich, wartungsfreundlich |
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 serviceable come from?
From Middle English servisable, from Old French servisable, from servise. By surface analysis, service + -able.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).