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Definition: Reparable |
ReparableAdjective1. 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: ReparableSynonym: rectifiable (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: irreparable (adj). (additional references) |
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). |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "reparable": reparable generations. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 reparável (retrievable), que pode consertar-se. (various references) reparabil (amendable, mendable, recoverable, retrievable), remediabil (remediable). (various references) поправимый (corrigible, recoverable, remediable, retrievable). (various references) opravljiv (repairable). (various references) que se puede reparar. (various references) reparabel (repairable). (various references) zararı karşılanabilir, telâfi edielbilir, giderilebilir (effaceable, repairable). (various references) що підляга" ремонту, поправний (amendable, corrigible, reclaimable, recoverable, rectifiable). (various references) có thể sửa, có thể đền bù. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | reparabilis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "reparable": irreparable. (additional references) | |
Words containing "reparable": irreparableness, irreparablenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Reparable" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reapable, reparables, respirable. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| 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) |
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. 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)52 65 70 61 72 61 62 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .--. .- .-. .- -... .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01110000 01100001 01110010 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e p a r a b l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0070 0061 0072 0061 0062 006C 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527182678467687871 |
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