frangibility

Questions about frangibility

What does frangibility mean?

frangibility means "quality of being easily damaged or destroyed".

How many syllables are in frangibility?

frangibility has 5 syllables and divides as fran-gi-bi-li-ty 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.

What is another word for frangibility?

Close synonyms include fragility, breakability, frangibleness. 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 frangibility a common word?

frangibility 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.