Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Capable of being pronounced or uttered.
Wiktionary
- adj. Capable of being distinctly pronounced in speech; enunciable.
- adj. Capable of being expressed; sayable.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Capable of being pronounced.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. capable of being uttered or pronounced
Etymologies
- From pronounce + -able (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The reason that I bothered with the argument of vowelless [mz] being pronounceable is simply that I do, in fluent speech, usually produce the vowelless [mz], and therefore wanted to explain the more objectionable position, figuring the vowelled pronunciation of Ms. could defend itself.”
“AMUN, among the Egyptians, was a name pronounceable by none save the”
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
““Al-Kajari” is the corruption, which denotes its foreign origin, and renders its name pronounceable to Arabs.”
“Amun's name pronounceable only by the Egyptian Priests, 621-l.”
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
“It's telling that Cameron describes the resulting tongue as something that is "pronounceable" yet sounds "exotic and not specific to human languages.”
“In an earlier issue of VERBATIM writers have commented on what have come to be called "bacronyms," names of companies, products, charities, and other institutions that have been chosen solely because their acronyms yield words that are pronounceable, meaningful, or both.”
“I was the guest at the Science Fiction Society of Northern New Jersey, famous for having the least-pronounceable acronym in skiffydom.”
“Popping into the oven, I perused the ingredients list which again was mercifully short and pronounceable, but odd.”
“Mr. Alter conducted a similar study in 2006 showing that companies with pronounceable ticker symbols—such as RAD for Rite Aid Corp.—performed better in the stock market following an initial public offering.”
“She's a Democratic pollster, senior vice president of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, distinguished for having much more pronounceable names.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pronounceable’.
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EN - autological words and phrases
Words and phrases expressing a property which they also possess themselves: "noun" is a noun, "English" is English, etc. If W means W AND W is (a) W, then W is an autological item. Very often but n...
noun, polysyllabic, abbrv., word, common, English, lovely, sesquipedalian, heterological, short, term, terminus technicus and 63 more...
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Reflexive words
Words that describe themselves (at least as displayed below). Also called autological or homological words, as listed by dann and tthorley.
sereneness, undulate, fidgety, fijiti, narrow, this, splendacious, ugly, short, terse, sesquipedalian, spellable and 67 more...
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Homological (or Autological) Words
A list of homological (self-describing) words
short, terse, pronounceable, pentasyllabic, writable, typed, sesquipedalian, word, alphanumeric, letters, exists, trochee and 4 more...
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