Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

numerable

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.20 in modern English

Syllables: nu-mer-able
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Able to be counted; countable.

adj

In one to one correspondence with the set of natural integers.

adj

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *nem- Proto-Italic *nomezos Latin numerus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin numerō Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin numerābilisbor. English numerable Borrowed from Latin numerābilis.

Inflected Forms

more numerable (comparative) most numerable (superlative)

Derived Forms

numerableness numerably unnumerable

Synonyms

countable denumerable enumerable

Antonyms

innumerable uncountable

Questions

What does numerable mean?: Able to be counted; countable.
Where does numerable come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *nem- Proto-Italic *nomezos Latin numerus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin numerō Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin numerābilisbor. English numerable Borrowed from Latin numerābilis.

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