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Definition: Peccable |
PeccableAdjective1. Liable to sin; "a frail and peccable mortal"- Sir Walter Scott. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "peccable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
Etymology: Peccable \Pec"ca*ble\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression peccable. See Peccant.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: PeccableSynonym: peccant (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Guilt | Adjective: guilty, to blame, culpable, peccable, in fault, at fault, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, illaudable; weighed in the balance and found wanting; exceptionable. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Peccable |
| English words defined with "peccable": Peccability, peccant. (references) |
| "Peccable" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Peccable" is used about 7 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 |
| Noun (proper) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "peccable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Mëkatar (evil, evil doer, peccant, sinful, sinner, transgressor, unrighteous, wrongdoer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | "реховен, "решен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sündhaft (flagitious, iniquitous, sinful, sinfully, wicked). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Αμαρτωλόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Esendõ (fallible). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Peccabile. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eccablepay Pecabilidade. (various references) Pãcãtos (faulty, flagitious, godless, guilty, nefarious, sinful, sinner, trespasser, wicked), Care Poate Greşi. (various references) "решный. (various references) grešan (iniquitous, peccant, sinful, ungodly, unrighteous). (various references) Syndfull (sinful). (various references) dễ lỗi lầm; dễ thiếu sót có thể mắc lỗi lầm; có thể phạm thiếu sót. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "peccable": impeccable. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "peccable" (pronounced 'Pec"ca*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-c-e-e-l-p" | |
-2 letters: beleap. | |
-3 letters: abele, becap, bleep, cable, cecal, celeb, clepe, peace, place, plebe. | |
-4 letters: able, alec, alee, bale, beep, blae, cape, ceca, cepe, clap, lace, leap, pace, pale, peal, peel, pele, plea, pleb. | |
-5 letters: ace, alb, ale, alp, ape, bal, bap, bee, bel, cab, cap, cee, cel, cep, eel, lab, lac, lap, lea, lee, pac. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-c-e-e-l-p" | |
+2 letters: acceptable, impeccable. | |
+4 letters: bespectacled, unacceptable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 63 63 61 62 6C 65 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . -.-. -.-. .- -... .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01100011 01100011 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e c c a b l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 0063 0063 0061 0062 006C 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5071696967687871 |
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