distortable

1. 1.

   capable of having the meaning altered or twisted

   “our words are distortable things--as in a crooked mirror held up to nature”

   Similarchangeable

Questions about distortable

What does distortable mean?

distortable means "capable of having the meaning altered or twisted".

How many syllables are in distortable?

distortable has 4 syllables and divides as di-stor-ta-ble under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is distortable a common word?

distortable 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.