Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stainable

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: stain-able
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Able to be stained.

adj

Able to produce stains.

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

more stainable (comparative) most stainable (superlative)

Derived Forms

immunostainable nonstainable stainability stainableness unstainable

Questions

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

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