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walkable

/ˈwɔːkəbəl/adjective

walkable is spelled W-A-L-K-A-B-L-E: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 47,073rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, walkable means “Able to be walked; suitable for pedestrians” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in walkable?

Letters8: W-A-L-K-A-B-L-E
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 47,073rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is walkable?

Walkable appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 47,073rd 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 walkable?

  • /ˈwɔːkəbəl/
  • [ˈwɔːkəbɫ̩]

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

Forms of walkable

  • more walkable comparative
  • most walkable superlative

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

What does walkable mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Able to be walked; suitable for pedestrians.

    This route is no longer walkable since the bush and the vines grew over it.

  2. 2

    Short enough or close enough to be accessible by walking.

    Is the train station walkable from here?

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

Walkable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense able to be walked:

LanguageWords
Frenchmarchable
Portugueseandável
Spanishcaminable, transitable

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 walkable come from?

From walk + -able.

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

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