Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mashable

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.59 in modern English

Syllables: mash-able
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of a consistency suitable for mashing.

adj

Suitable for inclusion in a mashup.

Informal

Example Sentences

"[…] legs, loins, shoulders, and necks, accompanied with mashed potatoes, so long as they were mashable […]"
"Cook the pumpkin until mashable with a potato masher."
"As mentioned earlier, mashable services often require some sort of identifying information to understand what applications use their capabilities."
"That is, this chapter answers the question, how would you as a content producer make your digital content most effectively remixable and mashable to users?"

Etymology

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

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

more mashable (comparative) most mashable (superlative)

Questions

What does mashable mean?: Of a consistency suitable for mashing.
Where does mashable come from?: Etymology tree English mash Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English mashable From mash + -able.

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