soluble
/ˈsɑljəbəl/adjective
soluble is spelled S-O-L-U-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is soluable: about 160 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Soluble is an adjective meaning “Able to be dissolved”.
How many letters and syllables are in soluble?
| Letters | 7: S-O-L-U-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.8 times per million words; the 16,228th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, soluable, about 160 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell soluble?
Soluble is spelled S-O-L-U-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 soluble 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 soluble?
Soluble appears 2.8 times per million words in written English, the 16,228th 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 soluble?
- UK /ˈsɒljʊbəl/
- US /ˈsɑljəbəl/
Soluble has 3 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-soluble.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with soluble?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as soluble from its last stressed vowel (/ɑljəbəl/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of soluble
- more soluble comparative
- most soluble superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does soluble mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Able to be dissolved.
Sugar is soluble in water.
- 2
Able to be solved or explained.
That mystery should be easily soluble.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Soluble in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 soluble come from?
From Middle English soluble, from Old French soluble, from Late Latin solūbilis, from Latin solvere (“to loosen”) + -bilis. Piecewise doublet of solvable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).