commutable

1. 1.

   subject to alteration or change

   “the death sentence was commutable to life imprisonment”

   Antonymsincommutable

   Similaralterableconvertible
2. 2.

   capable of being exchanged for another or for something else that is equivalent

   Synonymssubstitutable

   Similarexchangeable

Questions about commutable

What does commutable mean?

commutable means "subject to alteration or change". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in commutable?

commutable has 4 syllables: com-mu-ta-ble. The stress falls on "mu".

What is another word for commutable?

Close synonyms include substitutable. 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 commutable?

The recorded antonyms are incommutable.

Is commutable a common word?

commutable is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.