malleable

Questions about malleable

What does malleable mean?

malleable means "easily influenced". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in malleable?

malleable has 4 syllables: mal-le-a-ble. The stress falls on "mal". In IPA it is /ˈmæliəbəl/.

What is another word for malleable?

Close synonyms include ductile, ductile, pliable, pliant, tensile. 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 malleable a common word?

malleable is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.