Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

maintainable

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.21 in modern English

Syllables: main-tain-able
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Able to be maintained

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

more maintainable (comparative) most maintainable (superlative)

Derived Forms

maintainableness nonmaintainable unmaintainable

Questions

What does maintainable mean?: Able to be maintained
Where does maintainable come from?: Etymology tree English maintain Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English maintainable From maintain + -able.

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