Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

untrainable

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.32 in modern English

Syllables: un-train-able
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

That cannot be trained.

Example Sentences

"Kristi Noem[…] may have committed a class two misdemeanor offence when her fated dog Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehair pointer Noem deemed “untrainable” for hunting pheasant, killed a neighbor’s chickens."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English train Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English trainable English untrainable From un- + trainable.

Derived Forms

untrainableness

Questions

What does untrainable mean?: That cannot be trained.
Where does untrainable come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English train Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English trainable English untrainable From un- + trainable.

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