Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tailable

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tail-able
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of a cursor: not closed when the end of the resultset is reached, but able to be used as further documents are added to the collection.

Etymology

From tail + -able.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: tail

Questions

What does tailable mean?: Of a cursor: not closed when the end of the resultset is reached, but able to be used as further documents are added to the collection.
Where does tailable come from?: From tail + -able.

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