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Reparable

Definition: Reparable

Reparable

Adjective

1. Capable of being repaired or rectified; "reparable damage to the car"; "rectifiable wrongs".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "reparable" was first used: 1570. (references)

Synonym: Reparable

Synonym: rectifiable (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: irreparable (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Reparable

English words defined with "reparable": Reparability, Reparably. (references)
Specialty definitions using "reparable": reparable generations. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Reparable" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Spanish (repairable, retrievable).

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Usage Frequency: Reparable

"Reparable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Reparable" is used about 3 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%3202,518

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

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Expression: Reparable

Expression using "reparable": reparable generations. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translations: Reparable

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

Albanian

  

i riparueshëm (recoverable, remediable, repairable). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏قابل للاصلاح. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

поправим (amendable, corrigible, fixable, remediable, rightable). (various references)

   

Czech

  

napravitelný. (various references)

   

Danish

  

antal af reparable reservedele (reparable generations). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

قابل جبران , تعمیرپذیر, اصلاح پذیر. (various references)

   

French

  

préjudice difficilement réparable (injury which it would be difficult to remedy, not easily reparable damage). (various references)

   

German

  

reparabel (fixable, repairable), wiedergutmachen (atone for, compensate, make good, put right, recompense, recover, rectify, recuperate, redress, repair, retrieval, retrieve, to make up for), ersetzbar (remunerable, replaceable, substitutable). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

επισκευάσιμες μερίδες (reparable generations). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kijavítható. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

terbaiki. (various references)

   

Italian

  

riparabile (mendable, repairable). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

수리 수 있" (repairable). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eparableray

   

Portuguese

  

reparável (retrievable), que pode consertar-se. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

reparabil (amendable, mendable, recoverable, retrievable), remediabil (remediable). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

поправимый (corrigible, recoverable, remediable, retrievable). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

opravljiv (repairable). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

que se puede reparar. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

reparabel (repairable). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zararı karşılanabilir, telâfi edielbilir, giderilebilir (effaceable, repairable). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

що підляга" ремонту, поправний (amendable, corrigible, reclaimable, recoverable, rectifiable). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

có thể sửa, có thể đền bù. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Reparable

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

reparabilis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Reparable

Derivations

Words ending with "reparable": irreparable. (additional references)

Words containing "reparable": irreparableness, irreparablenesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Reparable" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reapable, reparables, respirable. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Reparable"

Words rhyming with "reparable" (pronounced 'Rep"a*ra*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)

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Anagrams: Reparable

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: reapable.

-2 letters: parable, pearler.

-3 letters: arable, barrel, bearer, beleap, earlap, leaper, paleae, parral, parrel, realer, reaper, repeal.

-4 letters: abele, abler, areae, areal, baler, barer, barre, blare, blear, bleep, labra, laree, leper, palea, paler, parae, parer, parle, pearl, perea, plebe, raper, rebar, rebel, repel.

-5 letters: able, alae, alar, alba, alee, aper, area, baal, bale, bare, bear.

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

+1 letter: pallbearer, repairable.

 

+2 letters: irreparable, pallbearers.

 

+3 letters: irrepealable, reproachable.

 

+4 letters: irreplaceable, irreplaceably.

 

+5 letters: irreproachable, reprogrammable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Reparable


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

52 65 70 61 72 61 62 6C 65

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010010 01100101 01110000 01100001 01110010 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#112 &#97 &#114 &#97 &#98 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0070 0061 0072 0061 0062 006C 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

527182678467687871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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