capability

Other forms of capability

plural

capabilities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about capability

What does capability mean?

capability means "the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in capability?

capability has 5 syllables: ca-pa-bil-i-ty. The stress falls on "bil". In IPA it is /ˌkeɪpəˈbɪləti/.

What is another word for capability?

Close synonyms include capableness, capacity, capableness, potentiality. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of capability?

The recorded antonyms are incapability, incapability.

Is capability a common word?

capability 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.

What rhymes with capability?

23 words rhyme with capability. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.