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Definition: Incredible |
IncredibleAdjective1. Beyond belief or understanding; "at incredible speed"; "the book's plot is simply incredible". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "incredible" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Incredible \In*cred"i*ble\, adjective. [Latin expression incredibilis: compare to Old French expression incredible. See In- not, and Credible.]. (references) |
Synonym: IncredibleSynonym: unbelievable (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: credible (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Greatness | Vast, immense, enormous, extreme; inordinate, excessive, extravagant, exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous, overgrown; towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible; marvelous. |
Impossibility | Adjective: impossible; not possible; absurd, contrary to reason; unlikely; unreasonable; incredible; beyond the bounds of reason, beyond the bounds of possibility, beyond the realm of possibility; from which reason recoils; visionary; inconceivable; (improbable); prodigious; (wonderful); unimaginable, inimaginable; unthinkable. |
Improbability | Rare; (infrequent); unheard of, inconceivable; unimaginable, inimaginable; incredible; more than doubtful; strange, bizarre (uncomformable). |
Unbelief Doubt | Doubtful; (uncertain); disputable; unworthy of, undeserving of belief; questionable; suspect, suspicious; open to suspicion, open to doubt; staggering, hard to believe, incredible, unbelievable, not to be believed, inconceivable; impossible. |
Wonder | Monstrous, prodigious, stupendous, marvelous; inconceivable, incredible; inimaginable, unimaginable; strange; (uncommon); passing strange. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Incredible |
| English words defined with "incredible": contortion, crookedness ♦ Fish story ♦ incredibility, incredibleness ♦ tall tale, The marvelous, torsion, tortuosity, tortuousness ♦ unbelievable, Uncredible, Untrowable ♦ yarn-spinning. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "incredible": bit twiddling ♦ Marlena, Mouse ♦ owns you ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "incredible": Untrowable. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | What an incredible smell you've discovered (Episode IV: A New Hope; writing credit: George Lucas.) You're incredible. (Groundhog Day; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) Dragon-Lady with incredible figure at 11 o'clock (Good Morning, Vietnam; writing credit: Mitch Markowitz) They gave me this incredible office, a great view (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) After all, he told him, the vastness of the universe was incredible. If these monsters had come from its outer limits, their home might even no longer exist (The Creeping Terror; writing credit: Arthur Ross; Robert Silliphant) | |
Lyrics | You felt incredible (Last Night; performing artist: Az Yet) Making me feel so incredible (American Girls; performing artist: Counting Crows) | |
Clever | Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible, and receives the impossible! (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Incredible Flight of the Snow Geese (1973) That's Incredible Special! (2002) Incredible (2001) The Incredible Adventures of Wallace & Gromit (2001) Incredible Crisis (2000) | |
Song Titles | A Very Cellular Song (performing artist: The Incredible String Band) Black Jack Davy (performing artist: The Incredible String Band) Minotaur's Song, The (performing artist: The Incredible String Band) This Moment (performing artist: The Incredible String Band) | |
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 | Commanding Officers in conference off Korea, 26 October 1950. Probably taken in the wardroom of USS Incredible (AM-249), off Wonsan. Those present are identified in Photo # 80-G-422081 (Complete Caption). Credit: NAVY. |  | "Incredible! It's a U-boat!". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "London Underground Series 5" by Alex Furr Commentary: "Series of shots from the London Underground -inspired by the incredible photo by holyspirit." | "Floating white 1" by K.C. Hohensee Commentary: "In Idaho, the clouds are like cotton candy, and the skies produce only the most incredible blue natural gradients." |
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Coventry Patmore | The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.'' |
Oscar Wilde | I can believe anything provided it is incredible. |
René Descartes | No opinion, however absurd and incredible, can be imagined, which has not been maintained by some one of the philosophers. |
St. Augustine | If the thing believed is incredible, it is also incredible that the incredible should have been so believed. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The bushes shook their little thin arms with an incredible fury |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dulness |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | This is an incredible figure compared to other countries, such as Italy (1 in 57) or Germany (1 in 128). Many of these small businesses are now in economic trouble. (references) | |
Renault could not maintain its high sales, which is no surprise after the incredible sale of 48,000 Megane Scenics’ in 1998. Renault, the largest manufacturer of European vans, is still the top selling van manufacturer. (references) | ||
Economic History | Vietnam | According to a recent release of the Ho Chi Minh City statistics office, the city and three surrounding provinces of Binh Duong, Dong Nai, and Da Ria-Vung Tau, with only 3.8 percent of the country's surface area and 11.2 percent of the population accounted for 31 percent of the country's GDP in 1999. Essentially, this incredible economic story is the result of large inflows of foreign investment to these provinces, which are now in many ways 'de facto' integrated into the world economy. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christians were thrown to the lions, so centuries earlier in Otumwee, the most ancient and famous city of the world, female heretics were thrown to the mice. Jakak-Zotp, the historian, the only Otumwump whose writings have descended to us, says that these martyrs met their death with little dignity and much exertion. He even attempts to exculpate the mice (such is the malice of bigotry) by declaring that the unfortunate women perished, some from exhaustion, some of broken necks from falling over their own feet, and some from lack of restoratives. The mice, he avers, enjoyed the pleasures of the chase with composure. But if "Roman history is nine-tenths lying," we can hardly expect a smaller proportion of that rhetorical figure in the annals of a people capable of so incredible cruelty to a lovely women; for a hard heart has a false tongue. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Erin Runnion | Overwhelming. Overwhelming. The outpour from everyone, the love that people are showing us has just been incredible. |
Mike Carona | Well, Erin's an incredible lady. It's got to be very difficult now that the media has all died down and she has time to spend with her thoughts. And not having Samantha with her, it's got to be devastating. |
Prince Albert of Monaco | Yeah. I mean, obviously, you know. And it's incredible to see how she touched the lives of so many people around her. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | How incredible it is that in this fragile existence, we should hate and destroy one another. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | The genius of America has been its incredible ability to improve the lives of its citizens through a unique combination of governmental and free citizen activity. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Those who choose leave welfare for jobs without health benefits find themselves in the incredible position of paying taxes that help pay for health coverage for those who choose to stay on welfare. |
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| "Incredible" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.81% of the time. "Incredible" is used about 1,240 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) | 95.81% | 1,188 | 6,507 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.19% | 52 | 47,145 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,240 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "incredible": incredible vs credible unbelievable. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "incredible": incredible-looking. | |
| 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 "incredible"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i pabesueshëm (anecdotic, fabulous, inconceivable, unbelievable, unreal), i jashtëzakonshëm (egregious, emergency, exceeding, exceptional, exceptive, exclusive, extraordinary, heroic, inconceivable, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, sole, stupendous, terrible, thumping, transcendent, transcendental, uncommon, unthinkable, unusual, wonderful), i habitshëm (amazing, astonishing, fabulous, marvellous, marvelous, oddish, portentous, strange, striking, unusual, wonderful). (various references) | |
Arabic | لا يصدق (discredit, inconceivable, unbelievable, unthinkable). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | чуден (fantastic, fantastical, freak, freaky, funny, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, peculiar, strange), невероятен (anecdotal, fabulous, far fetched, improbable, marvellous, marvelous, tall, unbelievable, unlikely, unthinkable), неправдоподобен (implausible, improbable, unconvincing, unlikely), много голям (astronomic, astronomical, exceeding, king size, mighty, whacking), забележителен (eminent, extraordinary, memorable, notable, noteworthy, proud, remarkable, salient, signal, some, thumping, unco, unique, unusual, wonderful). (various references) | |
Chinese | 难以置信, 難以置信 . (various references) | |
Czech | neuvìřitelný (astonishing, improbable, past belief, startling, stupendous, unbelievable), fantastický (dishy, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, gorgeous, great, like a dream, magic, out of this world, smashing, sublime, terrific, unbelievable). (various references) | |
Danish | utaenkelig. (various references) | |
Dutch | onaannemelijk. (various references) | |
Esperanto | nekredebla. (various references) | |
Farsi | غیرقابل قبول (Ineligible), افسانه ای (Legendary), باورنکردنی (Inconceivable, Unbelievable). (various references) | |
Finnish | uskomaton (unbelievable), epäuskottava. (various references) | |
French | invraisemblable. (various references) | |
German | unglaublich (elusive, elusively, flabbergasting, incredibly, indescribable, indescribably, outrageous, phenomenal, unbelievable, unbelievably, what a revelation), unglaubhaft (implausible, unbelievable). (various references) | |
Greek | μη πιστευτό, απίστευτοσ (unbelievable), απίστευτος (incredulous, staggering, unbelievable). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שלא יאמן, פנטסטי (fantastic). (various references) | |
Hungarian | valószínûtlen (implausible, improbable, shadowy, unbelievable, unlikely), hihetetlen (beyond belief, impossible, inconceivable, marvellous, marvelous, unbelievable, unlikely, wondrous). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menakjubkan (exciting, fantastic, stagger), luar biasa (colossal, exceptional, extraordinary, formidable, immensely, phenomenal, preternatural, remarkable, unbelievable), aduhai (alack, how beautiful). (various references) | |
Italian | incredibile (unbelievable). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 珍無類 (extraodinary, singular), 桁外れ (extraordinary). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | けたはずれ (extraordinary), ちんむるい (extraodinary, singular). (various references) | |
Korean | 믿을 수 없는 (treacherous, unbelievable). (various references) | |
Manx | neuchredjallagh (impossible, unbelievable), anchredjallagh (incredulous). (various references) | |
Norwegian | utrolig. (various references) | |
Papiamen | inkreibel. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | incredibleay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | incrvel (impossible), incrível (terrific, unbelievable, wondrous), inconcebvel (inconceivable), inacreditvel (impossible), não plausível. (various references) | |
Romanian | greu de crezut, de necrezut (fabulous, inconceivable, marvellous, tall, unbelievable, unimaginable). (various references) | |
Russian | невероятный (anecdotic, fabulous, implausible, impossible, improbable, inconceivable, mind-blowing, mind-boggling, prodigious, unbelievable, undreamt of). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neverovatan (implausible, improbable, unbelievable, unbelieving, unlikely). (various references) | |
Spanish | increíble (beyond belief, extraordinary, implausible, mind-bending, steep, unbelievable, unreal). (various references) | |
Swedish | otrolig (far fetched, fishy, improbable, tall, unbelievable, uncanny, unlikely). (various references) | |
Turkish | inanılmaz (beyond belief, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, implausible, inconceivable, steep, stiff, unbelievable, unheard of, unreliable), olağanüstü (above the ordinary, breathtaking, classical, dreamy, exceeding, exceptional, extra, extraordinary, extreme, fantastic, fantastical, glorious, huge, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, necromantic, out of this world, paramount, phenomenal, portentous, preternatural, prodigious, rare, raving, remarkable, shining, smashing, special, spectacular, splendid, sublime, supernatural, supernormal, terrific, unearthly), şaşırtıcı (amazing, astonishing, astounding, baffling, bewildering, colossal, confused, confusing, dazzling, intriguing, mind-bending, perplexing, puzzling, rum, spectacular, staggering, startling, striking, surprising, twisty), akıl almaz (imagination boggles at the thought, incomprehensible, inconceivable, numinous, preposterous, unbelievable, unreasonable, unreasoning). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | неправдоподібний (unlikely, unthinkable). (various references) | |
Welsh | anhygoel, anghredadwy (inficel, unbelievable). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | incredibile, incredibiles, incredibili, incredibilis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 26, Verse 8 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ti apiston krinetai par umin ei o qeoV nekrouV egeirei |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quid incredibile iudicatur apud vos si Deus mortuos suscitat |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | What vnbileueful thing is demed at you, if God reisith deed men? |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Why shuld it be thought a thinge vncredible vnto you that god shuld rayse agayne the deed? |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead? |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead? |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Why, in your opinion, is it outside belief for God to make the dead come to life again? |
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| Language | Acts Chapter 26, Verse 8 |
| Albanian | Përse vallë mendoni se është e pabesueshme që Perëndia t'i ringjallë të vdekurit? |
| Cebuano | Nganong inyo mang ginadahum nga dili katoohan nga ang Dios magabanhaw sa mga patay? |
| Chinese | 神 叫 死 人 復 活 、 你 們 為 甚 麼 看 作 不 可 信 的 呢 。 |
| Croatian | Zašto nevjerojatnim smatrate da Bog mrtve uskrisuje?" |
| Danish | Hvor kan det holdes for utroligt hos eder, at Gud oprejser døde? |
| Dutch | Wat? wordt het bij ulieden ongelofelijk geoordeeld, dat God de doden opwekt? |
| Finnish | Miksi on teistä uskomatonta, että Jumala herättää kuolleet? |
| French | Quoi! vous semble-t-il incroyable que Dieu ressuscite les morts? |
| German | Warum wird das für unglaublich bei euch geachtet, das Gott Tote auferweckt? |
| Haitian Creole | Poukisa, nou menm jwif, nou pa kwè Bondye ka leve moun mouri? |
| Hungarian | Micsoda? Hihetetlen dolognak tetszik néktek, hogy Isten halottakat támaszt fel? |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Mengapa saudara-saudara orang-orang Yahudi tidak dapat percaya bahwa Allah menghidupkan kembali orang mati? |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Apakah sebabnya Tuan-tuan sekalian menyangkakan mustahil, jikalau Allah membangkitkan orang mati? |
| Italian | Perché è considerato inconcepibile fra di voi che Dio risusciti i morti? |
| Latvian | Kâpçc jums ðíiet neticami, ka Dievs uzmodina miruðos? |
| Maori | He aha rawa kia kore e whakaponohia e koutou, ki te mea ka whakaara ake te Atua i te hunga mate? |
| Norwegian | Hvorfor aktes det for utrolig iblandt eder at Gud opvekker døde? |
| Rumanian | Ce? Vi se pare de necrezut cq Dumnezeu knviazq moryii? |
| Shuar | Warí, atumsha "Yus jakancha iniantkimniaiti" Tátsurmek' Tímiayi. |
| Spanish | ¿Por qué se juzga increíble entre vosotros que Dios resucite a los muertos? |
| Swahili | Kwa nini ninyi mnaona shida sana kuamini kwamba Mungu huwafufua wafu? |
| Swedish | Varför hålles det då bland eder för otroligt att Gud uppväcker döda? |
| Uma | Jadi', hewa toe lau, mokore-a hi rehe'i bona raparesa', apa' kusarumaka Alata'ala mpopadupa' janci-na hi ntu'a-ta owi to mpo'uli': hawe'ea tomate napotuwu' nculii' hi eo mpeno. Kita' muli Israel to hampulu' rontina, hawe'ea-ta mpopea kadupa' -na pojanci toe, toe pai' mepue' ncuu-ta hi Alata'ala, lompe' hi eo-na lompe' hi bengi-na. Magau' to kubila', ngkai pepangala' -ku hi pojanci Alata'ala toe-die, pai' alaa-na rapakilu-a to Yahudi toi-e. Pai' koi' ompi' -ompi' -ku to Yahudi! Napa-di pai' uma nipangalai' kabaraka' -na Alata'ala mpotuwu' nculii' tomate-e? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "incredible": incredibleness, incrediblenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Incredible" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: encredible, inceredible, increadable, increadible, incredable. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "incredible" (pronounced i'nkre"dubul) |
| 8 | -k r e" d u b u l | credible. |
| 6 | -e" d u b u l | inedible, edible. |
| 5 | -d u b u l | affordable, amendable, audible, avoidable, biodegradable, buildable, commendable, degradable, dependable, erodible, excludable, expandable, expendable, extendable, extendible, formidable, inaudible, spendable, laudable, mandible, moldable, nonrefundable, persuadable, readable, recordable, refundable, ridable, tradable, tradeable, unaffordable, unavoidable, unbuildable, understandable, unreadable. |
| 4 | -u b u l | incurable, indefatigable, indefensible, indefinable, indelible, indescribable, indestructible, indispensable, indisputable, indistinguishable, indivisible, indomitable, ineffable, ineligible, inequitable, inescapable, inevitable, inexcusable, inexhaustible, inexorable, inexplicable, infallible, infeasible, inflammable, inflatable, acceptable, accessible, abominable, accountable, achievable, actionable, adaptable, addressable, adjustable, admirable, admissible, adoptable, adorable, advisable, affable, agreeable, allowable, amenable, amiable, amicable, analyzable, answerable, appealable, applicable, appreciable, approachable, approvable, arable, arguable, attainable, attributable, available, bankable, bearable, believable, billable, breakable, burnable, callable, cannibal, capable, changeable, chargeable, charitable, classifiable, collapsible, collectible, Combinable, comfortable, communicable, comparable, compatible, compensable, comprehensible, conceivable, confirmable, considerable, constable, consumable, contemptible, contestable, controllable, convertible, copyrightable, countable, creditable, crucible, culpable, curable, debatable, deductible, defensible, definable, delectable, deliverable, demonstrable, deplorable, deployable, depreciable, describable, desirable, despicable, detachable, detectable, determinable, developable, digestible, disagreeable, discernible, discountable, discoverable, dishonorable, dispensable, disposable, disreputable, distinguishable, divisible, doable, drinkable, drivable, durable, eatable, electable, eligible, Embraceable, employable, enforceable, enjoyable, enviable, equable, equitable, erasable, estimable, exchangeable, excitable, excusable, execrable, exercisable, explainable, exportable, fallible, fashionable, fathomable, favorable, feasible, fissionable, fixable, flammable, flexible, forcible, foreseeable, forfeitable, forgettable, forgivable, fungible, fusible, gullible, habitable, harvestable, heritable, hon, honorable, horrible, hospitable, identifiable, illegible, imaginable, imitable, immiscible, immovable, immutable, impassable, impeachable, impeccable, impenetrable, imperceptible, impermissible, implacable, implantable, implausible, imponderable, impossible, impracticable, impregnable, impressionable, improbable, inaccessible, inadmissible, inadvisable, inalienable, inapplicable, incalculable, incapable, incomparable, incompatible, incomprehensible, incompressible, inconceivable, incontrovertible, incorrigible, soluble, solvable, submersible, suggestible, suitable, supportable, survivable, susceptible, sustainable, syllable, talkable, tangible, taxable, teachable, tenable, terrible, inflexible, inheritable, inhospitable, inimitable, injectable, innumerable, inoperable, insatiable, inscrutable, inseparable, insoluble, insufferable, insupportable, insurmountable, intangible, intelligible, interchangeable, interminable, interruptible, intolerable, intractable, invaluable, investable, invincible, inviolable, invisible, invulnerable, irascible, irreconcilable, irrefutable, irremediable, irreparable, irreplaceable, irrepressible, irresistible, irresponsible, irreversible, irrevocable, irritable, issuable, justifiable, knowledgeable, lamentable, laughable, leasable, legible, liable, likable, likeable, livable, lovable, malleable, manageable, maneuverable, marketable, measurable, memorable, microwavable, miscible, miserable, movable, navigable, negligible, negotiable, noncallable, nonconvertible, nondeductible, nondurable, nonrenewable, nontaxable, nontransferable, notable, noticeable, objectionable, observable, obtainable, operable, ostensible, palatable, palpable, parable, passable, patentable, payable, peaceable, perceptible, perishable, permeable, permissible, personable, pitiable, plausible, pleasurable, pliable, portable, possible, potable, practicable, predictable, preferable, presentable, preventable, printable, probable, profitable, programmable, prosecutable, provable, punishable, questionable, quotable, reachable, realizable, reasonable, receivable, rechargeable, recognizable, recoverable, recyclable, redeemable, redoubtable, reducible, regrettable, reliable, remarkable, removable, renewable, rentable, repairable, repayable, repeatable, replaceable, reportable, reprehensible, reputable, resealable, resettable, respectable, responsible, retractable, returnable, reusable, reversible, revocable, salable, saleable, salvageable, seasonable, sensible, serviceable, sizable, sizeable, sociable, tolerable, traceable, tractable, trainable, transferable, transferrable, transmittable, transportable, treatable, tunable, typeable, unacceptable, unaccountable, unalienable, unalterable, unanswerable, unassailable, unattainable, unavailable, unbearable, unbeatable, unbelievable, uncollectible, uncomfortable, unconscionable, uncontrollable, undeniable, undesirable, undetectable, unelectable, unemployable, unenforceable, unenviable, unexplainable, unfashionable, unfathomable, unfavorable, unfeasible, unflappable, unforeseeable, unforgettable, unforgivable, ungovernable, unimaginable, unimpeachable, uninhabitable, uninsurable, unintelligible, unjustifiable, unknowable, unlivable, unmanageable, unmentionable, unmistakable, unobtainable, unpalatable, unpredictable, unprintable, unprofitable, unquestionable, unreachable, unreasonable, unrecognizable, unreliable, unremarkable, unsalable, unshakable, unsinkable, unsolvable, unspeakable, unstoppable, unsuitable, unsupportable, unsustainable, untenable, unthinkable, untouchable, untraceable, unusable, unverifiable, unwinnable, unworkable, usable, variable, vegetable, venerable, verifiable, veritable, viable, visible, voluble, vulnerable, washable, wearable, winnable, workable. |
| 3 | -b u l | able, amble, assemble, babble, Babel, bauble, bible, bramble, bubble, Bumble, cable, cobble, coble, corbel, crumble, cymbal, dabble, Dibble, disable, disassemble, dissemble, double, Drabble, dribble, enable, enfeeble, ennoble, ensemble, fable, feeble, foible, fumble, gable, gamble, Garble, global, gobble, Gribble, grumble, hardscrabble, herbal, hobble, humble, ignoble, immeasurable, immobile, squabble, Stabile, stable, stubble, stumble, symbol, table, intertribal, jumble, kibble, label, libel, marble, mislabel, mobile, mumble, nibble, nimble, noble, nonverbal, pebble, preamble, psychobabble, quibble, rabble, ramble, reassemble, rebel, redouble, relabel, resemble, Roble, rouble, roundtable, rubble, Ruble, rumble, sable, Scrabble, scramble, scribble, shamble, Sibyl, thimble, timetable, treble, tremble, tribal, trouble, tubal, tumble, turntable, umbel, unable, unscramble, unserviceable, unstable, valuable, verbal, wamble, wobble. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-e-i-i-l-n-r" | |
-2 letters: bernicle, credible, decliner, inedible, linebred, reclined, rendible. | |
-3 letters: berline, blender, blinder, brindle, decibel, decline, dineric, eirenic, inbreed, reblend, recline, redline, relined. | |
-4 letters: belied, belier, bender, berlin, binder, bindle, birdie, birled, blende, bridle, brined, ceiled, ceiler, cinder, clerid, crenel, decern, decile, deicer, denier, dicier, edenic, edible, inbred, inlier, irenic, lender, lieder, lierne, linier, nereid. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-d-e-e-i-i-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: discernible. | |
+2 letters: ineradicable. | |
+3 letters: indescribable, indiscernible. | |
+4 letters: inconsiderable, incredibleness, indecipherable, indestructible, indiscoverable, republicanized, ribonucleoside, ribonucleotide. | |
+5 letters: incredibilities, ribonucleosides, ribonucleotides, underpublicized. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Bible Trace 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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