believable
/bɪˈliːvəbl̩/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.29 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "believable answer"
- "believable account"
- "believable story"
- "So far as cartoons are concerned these days, nothing—not even sewage works—is sacred, and everything is thereby readabler and believabler."
- "Blanche’s quavering voice and fluttering hands are indispensable elements that make it easy for her to be played in a pat and stiff manner, but Fischer has tapped deeper qualities in this acutely neurotic but tragic antiheroine to make her not only believabler, but sympathetic as well."
- "Like Dr Crane, I too dreamt of the day when I might see my name staring back at me in Easons, and it’s scarcely believable that the day has come. Even scarcerly believabler is the way it came about."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more believable (comparative)
believabler (comparative, nonstandard)
most believable (superlative)
believablest (nonstandard, rare)