Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

human-readable

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.29 in modern English

Syllables
hu-man-read-able
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

That can be read by humans (as well as computers), such as a file format based on plain text.

adj

Of writing, without excessive jargon.

Example Sentences

Inflected Forms

more human-readable (comparative) most human-readable (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

machine-readable

Questions

What does human-readable mean?
That can be read by humans (as well as computers), such as a file format based on plain text.

How to pronounce human-readable

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