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delightable

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
de-lightable
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Delightful.

Obsolete

Etymology

From Middle English delitable, from Old French delitable. By surface analysis, delight + -able. Piecewise doublet of delectable.

Origin

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Usage

Inflected Forms

more delightable (comparative) most delightable (superlative) delitable (alternative)

Questions

What does delightable mean?
Delightful.
Where does delightable come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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