accountable

1. 1.

   liable to account for one's actions

   “governments must be accountable to someone beside themselves”

   “fully accountable for what they did”

   “the court held the parents answerable for their minor child's acts of vandalism”

   “he was answerable to no one”

   Similarresponsible

Questions about accountable

What does accountable mean?

accountable means "liable to account for one's actions".

How many syllables are in accountable?

accountable has 4 syllables: ac-coun-ta-ble. The stress falls on "coun". In IPA it is /əˈkaʊntəbəl/.

Is accountable a common word?

accountable is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.