Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

breakle

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: break-le
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle.

Example Sentences

"At "Blackhead" — "Here is a breakle black touche stone under other rough stone.""

Etymology

From Middle English brekil, brikel, brukel, brokel (“easily broken or shattered, brittle, fragile”), from Old English *brycel, *brucol (as in hūsbrycel (“burglarious”, literally “tending to break into houses, i.e. "house-breakative"”), scipbrucol (“destructive to shipping, causing shipwreck”, literally “tending to break ships or shipping down, i.e. "ship-breakative"”)), from Proto-Germanic *brukilaz, *brukulaz (“liable or tending to break”), extended form of Proto-Germanic *brukiz (“breakable”), equivalent to break + -le. Compare brittle.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: brekil, *brycel, *brukilaz, *brukiz
Suffix: break

Inflected Forms

more breakle (comparative) most breakle (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

breakly brockly brickle bruckly

Questions

What does breakle mean?: Apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle.
Where does breakle come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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