Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

leavable

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: leav-able
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Capable of being left, or departed from.

adj

Capable of being left behind.

adj

Of or pertaining to a problem where the gambler is free to stop playing at any time.

Example Sentences

"They liked hotels, though, mainly because they didn't feel obligated to them: eminently leavable, a hotel room made no demands and extorted no loyalty […]"
"Hayleigh prodded her food with her knife. Where to begin with this little banquet of horrors? Well, obviously, not the chips. The chips would definitely be constituting the bulk of her leavable third."

Etymology

From leave + -able.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: leave

Inflected Forms

more leavable (comparative) most leavable (superlative)

Derived Forms

unleavable

Questions

What does leavable mean?: Capable of being left, or departed from.
Where does leavable come from?: From leave + -able.

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