Thinkable

Definition: Thinkable

Thinkable

Adjective

1. Capable of being conceived or imagined or considered.

Date "thinkable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1788. (references)

Antonym: unthinkable (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Thinkable

Etymologies containing "thinkable": Anoetic. (references)

"Thinkable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Thinkable" is used about 9 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%	9	117,287

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

Language		Translations for "thinkable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i përfytyrueshëm (conceivable, imaginable), i mendueshëm (pensive, thoughtful). (various references)

Arabic		‏ممكن تصوره (conceivable, imaginable), ‏ممكن (conceivable, contingent, imaginable, it is possible, likely, possible, potential). (various references)

Bulgarian		възможен (conceivable, eventual, feasible, liable, likely, possible, potential), осъществим (achievable, feasible, practicable, realizable, viable), мислим (cogitable, conceivable). (various references)

Czech		myslitelný (cogitable, conceivable). (various references)

Farsi		فکرکردنی , ممکن (Conceivable, Possible), قابل فکر, اندیشه پذیر. (various references)

French		pensable (think), imaginable. (various references)

German		denkbar (cogitable, conceivable, conceivably, imaginable, possible). (various references)

Greek		νοητόσ (comprehensible, conceivable, imaginable, intelligible, understandable). (various references)

Hungarian		elképzelhetõ (conceivable, feasible, imaginable). (various references)

Italian		figuràbile. (various references)

Manx		smooinaghtoil, sheiltynagh (conjectural, fanciful, imaginable, imaginary, imaginative, notional, presumable, putative, speculative, speculator, theoretic, theoretical, theorist), feeu smooinaght er. (various references)

Pig Latin		inkablethay

Portuguese		imaginável (cogitable, conceivable, devisable, imaginary, realizable), concebível (cogitable, conceivable, realizable), admissível (admissible, allowable, permissible). (various references)

Romanian		imaginabil (conceivable, imaginable), care poate fi imaginat. (various references)

Russian		мыслимый (cogitable, conceivable). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zamisliv. (various references)

Spanish		que puede pensar, pensativo (digestible, drear, dreary, meditative, pensive, reflective, ruminative, thoughtful, wistful). (various references)

Swedish		tänkbar (conceivable, earthly, imaginable, possible). (various references)

Turkish		düşünmeye değer, düşünülebilir (conceivable, imaginable). (various references)

Ukranian		мислимий (conceivable, imaginable), здійсненний (executable, feasible, realizable). (various references)

Vietnamese		có thể nghĩ ra được; có thể tưởng tượng được. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "thinkable": thinkableness, thinkablenesses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "thinkable": unthinkable. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "thinkable" (pronounced 'Think"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-e-h-i-k-l-n-t"
	-2 letters: antlike, batlike, beatnik, benthal, bethank, bethink, blanket, hatlike.
	-3 letters: albeit, albite, alkine, anklet, bhakti, binate, blithe, entail, habile, halite, hankie, hantle, henbit, inhale, intake, keblah, kiblah, talkie, tenail, thenal, tineal, tinkle.
	-4 letters: alien, alike, aline, anile, ankle, baith, bathe, batik, binal, blain, blank, blate, bleak, bleat, blent, blink, blite, elain, elint, entia, habit.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-h-i-k-l-n-t"
	+2 letters: unthinkable.
	+4 letters: thinkableness.
	+5 letters: breathtakingly, halterbreaking.
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