available
/əˈveɪ.lə.bəl/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.28 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
adj
Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy to achieve the purpose; availing, effective.
Archaic
adj
Free to meet someone, speak on the telephone, enter a romantic relationship, or the like.
Example Sentences
- "We have an available candidate."
- "For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks."
- "The list shows the available products in the store."
- "This is an available plea."
- "One thing however, I finally settled upon—and that was, if I ever did meet him that I would shoot him precisely as I would shoot a mad dog. In order to make this plan available, I had […] armed myself with a revolver."
- "The different navigations she had to pass through for this purpose were such that only an independent method of propulsion would be available."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈveɪ.lə.bəl/
- British English: /əˈveɪ.lə.bəl/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more available (comparative)
most available (superlative)