dependible
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] though I believe the most dependible marks to be derived from the long-attenuated base of the frond, owing to the gradual dwarfing of the lower pinnæ; […]"
- "[…] still there is scarcely a hope of their gaining enough to enable Peel to carry on the Government with such constant and dependible majorities as can alone render it efficacious and secure."
- "I have found him during the whole of my own residence here (since 1872) the most steady and sober of men, always at his work, and a thoroughly dependible man in every way."
- "Furthermore, Rexcraft, Inc., is starting 1927, with a complete net work of dependible jobbers from Coast to Coast."
- "He is average in work, dependible in attitude, is always in the middle of all the kiddish pranks the other inmate's^([sic]) want to play."
Etymology
From depend + -ible.
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more dependible (comparative)
most dependible (superlative)