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tolerable

tol·er·able/ˈtɑləɹəbl̩/adjective, adverb

tolerable is spelled T-O-L-E-R-A-B-L-E, 3 syllables: tol·er·able. The wrong spelling people search most is tollerable: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 18 of all searches for the word. Tolerable is an adjective meaning “Capable of being borne, tolerated or endured; bearable or endurable”.

How many letters and syllables are in tolerable?

Letters9: T-O-L-E-R-A-B-L-E
Syllables3: tol·er·able
In writing1.3 times per million words; the 25,070th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, tollerable, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell tolerable?

Tolerable is spelled T-O-L-E-R-A-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 18 of the searches for tolerable in either form.

tolerablethe right spelling330 searches a month
tollerablean extra l20 searches a month

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 tolerable?

Tolerable appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,070th 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 tolerable?

  • US /ˈtɑləɹəbl̩/
  • UK /ˈtɒləɹəbl̩/

Tolerable has 3 syllables, split tol·er·able in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-tolerable.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with tolerable?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as tolerable from its last stressed vowel (/ɑləɹəbl/):

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 tolerable

  • more tolerable comparative
  • most tolerable superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does tolerable mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Capable of being borne, tolerated or endured; bearable or endurable.

  2. 2

    Moderate in degree; mediocre; passable, acceptable or so-so.

  3. 3

    Such as to be tolerated or countenanced; permissible; allowable.

  4. 4

    In fair health; passably well.

adverb

  1. 1

    tolerably; passably; moderately.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Tolerable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchtolérable (Capable of being borne, tolerated or endured…)
Germanerträglich (Capable of being borne, tolerated or endured…), passabel (Moderate in degree; mediocre; passable…)
Portuguesetolerável (Capable of being borne, tolerated or endured…), sofrível (Moderate in degree; mediocre; passable…), tolerado (Such as to be tolerated or countenanced…)
Spanishtolerable, soportable, llevadero, sufrible (Capable of being borne, tolerated or endured…), aceptable, pasar piola (Moderate in degree; mediocre; passable…)

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 tolerable come from?

Inherited from Middle English tolerable, borrowed from Middle French tolerable, from Latin tolerābilis.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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