verifiability
noun
verifiability is a noun meaning “The state or property of being capable of being verified; confirmability” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-R-I-F-I-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of verifiability is verifiabilities.
What does verifiability mean?
noun
- 1
The state or property of being capable of being verified; confirmability.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce verifiability?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-verifiability.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of verifiability
- verifiabilities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is verifiability?
Verifiability appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th 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).
Verifiability in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense property of being capable of being verified:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Überprüfbarkeit |
| Spanish | verificabilidad |
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 verifiability come from?
From verify + -ability.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).