fordable

1. 1.

   shallow enough to be crossed by walking or riding on an animal or in a vehicle

   “the stream was fordable”

   Similarshallow

Questions about fordable

What does fordable mean?

fordable means "shallow enough to be crossed by walking or riding on an animal or in a vehicle".

How many syllables are in fordable?

fordable has 3 syllables and divides as for-da-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 fordable a common word?

fordable 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.