frangible

1. 1.

   capable of being broken

   “the museum stored all frangible articles in locked showcases”

   Similarbreakable

Questions about frangible

What does frangible mean?

frangible means "capable of being broken".

How many syllables are in frangible?

frangible has 3 syllables and divides as fran-gi-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 frangible a common word?

frangible 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.