Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

certifiable

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.18 in modern English

Syllables: cer-ti-fi-able
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

That can or must be certified.

adj

Mentally ill to such an extent that involuntary institutionalization is appropriate; crazy.

Informal

noun

A crazy person.

Informal

Example Sentences

"If any person said to you in 1950 that in seventeen years Miss Stalin would defect to the West, you would rightly have considered that person certifiable. She has now done it, with impressive smoothness and conviction."
"Forget the certifiables who are scrawling Hitler mustaches on pictures of the president."

Etymology

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

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

more certifiable (comparative) most certifiable (superlative) certifiables (plural)

Derived Forms

certifiableness certifiably noncertifiable uncertifiable

Synonyms

insane mad nuts certified

Questions

What does certifiable mean?: That can or must be certified.
Where does certifiable come from?: Etymology tree English certify Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English certifiable From certify + -able.

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