Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

interintelligible

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-ter-in-tel-li-gi-ble
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

7

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety.

Example Sentences

"The Okrika dialect, with Kalabari and Bonny, falls into the North-Eastern group of dialects which are partially interintelligible with Brass-Ndembe but not with the Central-Western dialects."
"The sense of independence from London norms ... was difficult to establish with the obvious reality in mind that English, Scottish, Irish, American, Australian and other Englishes are, after all, interintelligible and undoubtedly varieties of one and the same language."

Etymology

From inter- + intelligible.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: inter

Inflected Forms

more interintelligible (comparative) most interintelligible (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

interintelligibility

Synonyms

mutually intelligible

Questions

What does interintelligible mean?: Of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety.
Where does interintelligible come from?: From inter- + intelligible.

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