imputable

1. 1.

   capable of being assigned or credited to

   “punctuation errors ascribable to careless proofreading”

   “the cancellation of the concert was due to the rain”

   “the oversight was not imputable to him”

   Synonymsascribableduereferable

   Similarattributable

Questions about imputable

What does imputable mean?

imputable means "capable of being assigned or credited to".

How many syllables are in imputable?

imputable has 4 syllables: im-pu-ta-ble. The stress falls on "pu".

What is another word for imputable?

Close synonyms include ascribable, due, referable. 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 imputable a common word?

imputable 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.