navigable
/ˈnævɪɡəbəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.97 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Shanghai is situated on this river, about twelve miles above Woosung; and the river is navigable for steam-boats forty-seven miles higher up—to the point where it issues from the small lake on the south of the canal. Chapoo, the town taken by the British immediately before the attack upon Woosung, is on the north side of the gulf of Che-kiang, about midway between its north cape and its innermost recess. Shanghai is the great emporium of the trade of this district with the tea-provinces on the South, with the province of Shantung and the coast of the Mantchoo Tartars on the North."
- "[...] on July 16, 1790, a public meeting [...] unanimously approved of a scheme for making the River Soar navigable from Leicester to Loughborough, and "a cut or rail-way from Swannington and the neighbourhood to the bason at Loughborough.""
- "This Web site isn't very navigable. I can't tell which image links to which page."
Etymology
From Middle French navigable, from Latin navigabilis.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: navigable, navigabilis
Inflected Forms
more navigable (comparative)
most navigable (superlative)
Derived Forms
Phrases
keyboard-navigable
navigable waters