maintainable

1. 1.

   capable of being maintained

   Similarreparable

Questions about maintainable

What does maintainable mean?

maintainable means "capable of being maintained".

How many syllables are in maintainable?

maintainable has 4 syllables and divides as main-tai-na-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 maintainable a common word?

maintainable 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.