intelligibility

Questions about intelligibility

What does intelligibility mean?

intelligibility means "the quality of language that is comprehensible".

How many syllables are in intelligibility?

intelligibility has 7 syllables and divides as in-tel-li-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 the opposite of intelligibility?

The recorded antonyms are unintelligibility.

Is intelligibility a common word?

intelligibility 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.