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Definition: -ABLE

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1. An adjective suffix now usually in a passive sense; able to be; fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense; as, movable, able to be moved; amendable, able to be amended; blamable, fit to be blamed; salable.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 



Specialty Definitions: -ABLE

DomainDefinitions

Computing

ABLE A simple language for accountants. ["ABLE, The Accounting Language, Programming and Reference Manual," Evansville Data Proc Center, Evansville, IN, Mar 1975]. [Listed in SIGPLAN Notices 13(11):56 (Nov 1978)]. (1994-11-08). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: -ABLE

English words defined with "-ABLE": -ably, -ible. (references)
Etymologies containing "-ABLE": AddableEmulable. (references)
Non-English Usage: "-ABLE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (-able, -ible).

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Usage Frequency: -ABLE

"-ABLE" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "-ABLE" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: -ABLE

Language Translations for "-ABLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

-able. (various references)

   

German

  

-wert (-ible, -worthy), -lich (-ible), -bar (-ible). (various references)

   

Manx

  

yn- (fit, prefix -able), so- (prefix -able). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

-bar (-ible). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: -ABLE

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: able, bale, blae.

Words within the letters "a-b-e-l"

-1 letter: alb, ale, bal, bel, lab, lea.

-2 letters: ab, ae, al, ba, be, el, la.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l"
 

+1 letter: abele, abler, ables, amble, babel, bagel, baled, baler, bales, belay, belga, blade, blame, blare, blase, blate, blaze, bleak, blear, bleat, cable, fable, gable, gleba, label, sable, table.

 

+2 letters: abeles, abelia, ablate, ablaze, ablest, abseil, albedo, albeit, albite, alible, ambled, ambler, ambles, arable, babble, babels, baffle, bagels, bailed, bailee, bailer, bailey, bailie, balded, balder, baleen, balers, balked, balker, balled, baller, ballet, bangle, barbel, barely, barley, barrel, basely, battle, bauble, bawled, bawler, beadle, beagle, becalm, bedlam, befall, beflag, beflea, begall, beglad, behalf, belady, belaud, belays, beldam, beleap, belgas, beluga, benzal, bewail, bladed, blades, blamed, blamer, blames, blared, blares, blawed, blazed, blazer, blazes, bleach, bleaks, blears, bleary, bleats, boatel, boreal, bubale, bullae, byelaw, cabled, cables, cablet, dabble, doable, dyable, embalm, enable, fabled, fabler, fables, flambe, gabble, gabled, gables, gamble, garble, glebae, habile, herbal, keblah, labels, labile, labret, lambed, lamber, lambie, liable, librae, lobate, marble, nebula, obelia, oblate, rabble, ramble, sables, stable, suable, tabled, tables, tablet, unable, usable, verbal, viable, wabble, wamble, warble.

 

+3 letters: abalone, abaxile, abelian, abelias, abettal, ablated, ablates, abluent, abluted, abollae, abseils, absolve, abubble, actable, addable, addible, affable, albedos, albites, albumen, alembic, algebra, alibied, alibies, amblers, amiable, arables, astilbe, audible, babbled, babbler, babbles, baffled, baffler, baffles, bailees, bailers, baileys, bailies, balance, balases, baldest, baldies, baleens, baleful, balkers, balkier, ballade, ballers, ballets, ballies, ballute, balmier, balneal, baloney, baneful, bangles, barbell, barbels, barbule, barless, barleys, barrels, bascule, bastile, batlike, battled, battler, battles, baubles, baulked, bawlers, beadily, beadles, beagles, beamily, beastly, becalms, bechalk, beclasp, becloak, becrawl, bedlamp, bedlams, bedrail, beefalo, befalls, beflags, befleas, begalls, beglads, belabor, belaced, belated, belauds, belayed, beldame, beldams, beleaps, beleapt, bellman, beltway, belugas, benthal, bestial, bewails, bialies, bilayer, bimetal, bipedal, biplane, bitable, bivalve, blabbed, blabber, blacked, blacken, blacker, bladder, blamers, blander, blanked, blanker, blanket, blarney, blasted, blaster, blastie, blather, blatted, blatter, blazers, bleaker, bleakly, bleared, bleated, bleater, bloated, bloater, bluecap, bluejay, boatels, bolases, brabble, brailed, braille, braless, bramble, brattle, bravely, brawled, brawler, brawlie, bubales, bulkage, bullace, bullate, buyable, byelaws, cablets, caliber, calibre, capable, cembali, cembalo, citable, clabber, clamber, codable, curable, dabbled, dabbler, dabbles, datable, debacle, disable, dowable, drabble, dryable, dupable, durable, dyeable, earlobe, eatable, effable, embalms, emblaze, enabled, enabler, enables, equable, equably, eyeable, eyeball, fablers, fadable, fibulae, finable, fixable, flambee, flambes, flatbed, fleabag, flyable, friable, gabbled, gabbler, gabbles, gabelle, gambled, gambler, gambles, gambrel, garbled, garbler, garbles, gelable, getable, globate, grabble, halberd, halbert, hatable, herbals, hewable, hidable, hirable, imblaze, jellaba, keblahs, labeled, labeler, labella, labiate, labored, laborer, labrets, lambent, lambers, lambert, lambier, lambies, lesbian, liberal, librate, likable, limbate, linable, livable, lobated, lobelia, losable, lovable, makable, marbled, marbler, marbles, minable, mixable, movable, mutable, namable, nebulae, nebular, nebulas, notable, obelias, oblates, ownable, parable, payable, piebald, placebo, pliable, potable, puberal, rabbled, rabbler, rabbles, rambled, rambler, rambles, ratable, relabel, retable, ridable, ropable, rowable, rubella, rubeola, rulable, salable, savable, sayable, scabble, seeable, sewable, shamble, sizable, skiable, slabbed, slabber, sowable, stabile, stabled, stabler, stables, sublate, subsale, tableau, tablets, takable, tamable, taxable, teabowl, tenable, tenably, timbale, totable, triable, tunable, typable, useable, useably, verbals, vocable, votable, wabbled, wabbler, wabbles, wadable, wambled, wambles, warbled, warbler, warbles, wirable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: -ABLE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

2D 41 42 4C 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

00101101 01000001 01000010 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#45 &#65 &#66 &#76 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

002D 0041 0042 004C 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

1535364639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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