walkability
noun
walkability is a noun meaning “The quality of being walkable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-A-L-K-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of walkability is walkabilities.
What does walkability mean?
noun
- 1
The quality of being walkable.
This neighborhood has great walkability.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce walkability?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-walkability.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of walkability
- walkabilities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is walkability?
Walkability appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th 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).
Walkability in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense being walkable:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | marchabilité |
| Portuguese | caminhabilidade |
| Spanish | caminabilidad |
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 walkability come from?
From walkable + -ity or walk + -ability.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).