Indictable

Definition: Indictable

Indictable

Adjective

1. Liable to be accused, or cause for such liability; "the suspect was chargeable"; "an indictable offense".

Date "indictable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Synonym: Indictable

Synonym: chargeable (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Indictable

English words defined with "indictable": chargeable ♦ Detainer ♦ Eavesdropping. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Firearms in crime: a Home Office Statistical Division report on indictable offences involving firearms in England and Wales (reference) Indictable Appeals in Alberta (Canada Criminal Series) (reference) Indictable offences in Victoria (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Trinidad and Tobago	In practice the courts sometimes appoint attorneys for those persons charged with indictable offenses (serious crimes) if they cannot retain one on their own behalf. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Indictable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Indictable" is used about 57 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	57	44,859

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "indictable": non-indictable.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "indictable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		infraction ne pouvant être jugée que sur inculpation (indictable offence), infraction majeure (indictable offence), délits (lesser indictable offences). (various references)

German		strafbar (condemnable, criminal, culpable, culpably, liable, penal, penally, prosecutable, punishable). (various references)

Greek		μηνύσιμοσ. (various references)

Hungarian		vádolható, büntethető (penal). (various references)

Italian		incriminabile, perseguitabile, accusabile (chargeable). (various references)

Manx		shualtagh (appellant, complainant, plaintiff, prosecutor), cassidagh (accusative, accused, litigant). (various references)

Pig Latin		indictableay

Portuguese		processar (libellous, litigate, process, prosecution, Sue), acusável. (various references)

Romanian		incriminabil, condamnabil (blamable, blameful, blameworthy, chargeable, condemnable, culpable, damnable, damnably, damnatory, detestable, impeachable, imputable, reprehensible, wicked). (various references)

Russian		уголовный преступник (felon, indictable offender). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kažnjiv (guilty, punishable). (various references)

Spanish		procesable (actionable). (various references)

Swedish		åtalbar (actionable, chargeable). (various references)

Turkish		suçlanabilir (accusable, chargeable). (various references)

Ukranian		що підляга�" розглядові в суді. (various references)

Vietnamese		có thể bị truy tố, có thể bị buộc tội. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Indictable" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: indicable, injectible. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "indictable" (pronounced 'In*dict"a*ble'): Abatable, Abdicable, Abhominable, Abhorrible, Abolishable, Abominable, Abrogable, Absolvable, Absorbable, Abusable, Accendible, Accentuable, Acceptable, Accessible, Acclimatable, Acclimatizable, Accommodable, Accompanable, Accomplishable, Accomptable, Accordable, Accostable, Accountable, Accusable, Accustomable, Acetable, Achievable, Acidifiable, Acquaintable, Acquirable, Acreable, Actable, Actionable, Adaptable, Addable, Addible, Adducible, Adjustable, Administrable, Admirable, Admissible, Admittable, Adoptable, Adorable, Adustible, Advantageable, Advisable, Affable, Affectible, Affiliable. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-i-i-l-n-t"
	-1 letter: identical.
	-2 letters: actinide, alcidine, bidental, ciliated, ctenidia, diabetic, indicate.
	-3 letters: albinic, albitic, alibied, cabined, cabinet, ciliate, citable, citadel, deltaic, dialect, edictal, identic, incited, inedita, inlaced.
	-4 letters: acetin, albeit, albite, alined, atelic, bailed, bailie, baited, bandit, binate, bindle, cabled, cablet, cadent, candle, canted, cantle, catlin, centai, cental, citied, client, decant, delict, deltic, denial, dental, dentil.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-e-i-i-l-n-t"
	+3 letters: bidirectional, conditionable, ineducability.
	+4 letters: undecidability.
	+5 letters: bidirectionally, ineducabilities, ineradicability.
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