Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ascribable

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.10 in modern English

Syllables: as-crib-able
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Able to be ascribed.

Example Sentences

"A death, a drought ascribable to the sorcery of a weathermaker, a cyclone and so forth could always excite the natives to acts of revenge, and consequently no man could leave his district unarmed […]"
"The Soviet Union apparently took the U.S.— Japanese political-military alliance quite seriously—probably more seriously than we might imagine. The Soviet Union’s reluctance to return the Northern Territories to Japan, even at the expense of the bilateral relationship, is ascribable to the global confrontation between the USSR and the United States."

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

more ascribable (comparative) most ascribable (superlative)

Synonyms

due imputable referable

Questions

What does ascribable mean?: Able to be ascribed.
Where does ascribable come from?: Etymology tree English ascribe Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English ascribable From ascribe + -able.

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