movable

1. 1.

   personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)

   Synonymschattelpersonal chattel

   Broaderpersonal property

   furniture · car

Other forms of movable

plural

movables·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about movable

What does movable mean?

movable means "(of personal property as opposed to real estate) can be moved from place to place (especially carried by hand)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in movable?

movable has 3 syllables: mo-va-ble. The stress falls on "mo". In IPA it is /ˈmuvəbəl/.

What is another word for movable?

Close synonyms include moveable, transferable, transferrable, transportable, chattel. 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 movable a common word?

movable 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.

What rhymes with movable?

2 words rhyme with movable. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.