spreadable

/ˈspɹɛdəbəl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.90 in modern English

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Meaning

adj

noun

"This warm margarine is much more spreadable than that lump of cold butter."
"You can choose spreadable cheese or cheese blocks."
"Salumi platters, at $8 a selection, built from the best examples she can find, including a spicy, spreadable salami called nduja."

Etymology tree English spread Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English spreadable From spread + -able.

more spreadable (comparative) most spreadable (superlative) spreadables (plural)

nonspreadable spreadably unspreadable

Questions

How do you pronounce spreadable?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈspɹɛdəbəl/.

What does spreadable mean?

Capable of being spread.

Where does spreadable come from?

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