dependability

Other forms of dependability

plural

dependabilities·

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 dependability

What does dependability mean?

dependability means "the quality of being dependable or reliable".

How many syllables are in dependability?

dependability has 6 syllables: de-pen-da-bil-i-ty. The stress falls on "bil". In IPA it is /dɪˌpɛndəˈbɪlɪti/.

What is another word for dependability?

Close synonyms include dependableness, reliability, reliableness. 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 dependability?

The recorded antonyms are undependability.

Is dependability a common word?

dependability 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.

What rhymes with dependability?

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