walkable
/ˈwɔːkəbəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.60 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Able to be walked; suitable for pedestrians.
adj
Short enough or close enough to be accessible by walking.
Example Sentences
- "This route is no longer walkable since the bush and the vines grew over it."
- "Cities were generally much more walkable before the mid-20th century."
- "What I found turned out to be one of the best beer-drinking destinations I’d visited in Europe, a friendly and undertouristed city of about 750,000 inhabitants — large enough to be interesting, though still walkable."
- "Is the train station walkable from here?"
- "Just outside the city centre, briskly walkable and even more briskly busable from the main City site, Charlie Frears has his own medical library and teaching facilities[…]"
Etymology
Etymology tree English walk Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English walkable From walk + -able.
Inflected Forms
more walkable (comparative)
most walkable (superlative)