Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

deployable

/dɪplˈɔɪəbəl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.45 in modern English

Syllables: de-ploy-able
IPA: /dɪplˈɔɪəbəl/

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Able to be deployed.

adj

Ejectable, separable from the aircraft.

noun

Something, such as a software package or a military resource, that may be deployed.

Example Sentences

"[…] Germany had 284,500 active personnel in the armed forces with only 7500 readily deployable forces and 6810 committed to peace support operations; France had 259,050 personnel[…]"
"It played a significant role in the evolution of the deployable recorder, and offers an attractive alternative to "fixed recorders" in a "dual redundancy" installation (discussed later)"
"For example, helicopters that ditch at sea are often unrecoverable and consequently, despite the systems' higher cost and increased complexity, the Navy needed deployable recorder systems for its helicopters."

Etymology

From French déployable, deploy + -able.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: deploy

Inflected Forms

more deployable (comparative) most deployable (superlative) deployables (plural)

Derived Forms

nondeployable undeployable

Rhymes With

enjoyable employable unemployable

Questions

How do you pronounce deployable?: The recorded pronunciation is /dɪplˈɔɪəbəl/.
What does deployable mean?: Able to be deployed.
Where does deployable come from?: From French déployable, deploy + -able.

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