communicable

Questions about communicable

What does communicable mean?

communicable means "(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in communicable?

communicable has 5 syllables: com-mu-ni-ca-ble. The stress falls on "mu". In IPA it is /kəˈmjunəkəbəl/.

What is another word for communicable?

Close synonyms include catching, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable. 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.

Is communicable a common word?

communicable is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.