susceptibility
/səˌsɛptəˈbɪləti/noun
susceptibility is spelled S-U-S-C-E-P-T-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is susceptability: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 18 of all searches for the word. Susceptibility is a noun meaning “The condition of being susceptible; vulnerability”. The plural of susceptibility is susceptibilities.
How many letters and syllables are in susceptibility?
| Letters | 14: S-U-S-C-E-P-T-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 6 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.3 times per million words; the 25,367th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, susceptability, about 40 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 susceptibility?
Susceptibility is spelled S-U-S-C-E-P-T-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 18 of the searches for susceptibility 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 susceptibility?
Susceptibility appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,367th 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 susceptibility?
- UK /səˌsɛptəˈbɪlɪti/
- US /səˌsɛptəˈbɪləti/
- US [səˌsɛptəˈbɪləɾi]
Susceptibility has 6 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)-AnotherFriendlyHuman-susceptibility.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with susceptibility?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as susceptibility from its last stressed vowel (/ɪləti/):
- responsibility
- possibility
- capability
- probability
- accountability
- fertility
- sustainability
- eligibility
- instability
- vulnerability
- compatibility
- accessibility
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 susceptibility
- susceptibilities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does susceptibility mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The condition of being susceptible; vulnerability.
- 2
A way in which one is susceptible.
- 3
emotional sensitivity.
- 4
Being vulnerable to a treatment (usually an antibiotic or antifungal); also, the degree of such vulnerability (i.e., weak, moderate, or strong).
- 5
electric susceptibility, a measure of how easily a dielectric polarizes in response to an external electric field (compare permittivity).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Susceptibility in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | susceptibilité |
| German | Anfälligkeit , Empfänglichkeit , Suszeptibilität |
| Portuguese | suscetibilidade |
| Spanish | suscetibilidad |
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 susceptibility come from?
From susceptible + -ity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).