understandable
adjective
understandable is spelled U-N-D-E-R-S-T-A-N-D-A-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is understandible: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 58 of all searches for the word. Understandable is an adjective meaning “Capable of being understood; comprehensible”.
How many letters and syllables are in understandable?
| Letters | 14: U-N-D-E-R-S-T-A-N-D-A-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.5 times per million words; the 10,519th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, understandible, about 10 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 understandable?
Understandable is spelled U-N-D-E-R-S-T-A-N-D-A-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 58 of the searches for understandable 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 understandable?
Understandable appears 5.5 times per million words in written English, the 10,519th 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 understandable?
- US
Understandable has 5 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)-Vininn126-understandable.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of understandable
- more understandable comparative
- most understandable superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does understandable mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- 2
Capable of being accepted or excused under the circumstances; permissible.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Understandable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense capable of being understood:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | compréhensible, comprenable |
| German | verständlich, begreifbar |
| Portuguese | compreensível, entendível |
| Spanish | entendible |
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 understandable come from?
From Middle English understondable, equivalent to understand + -able.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).