navigable

1. 1.

   able to be sailed on or through safely

   “navigable waters”

   “a navigable channel”

   Similarpassable

Questions about navigable

What does navigable mean?

navigable means "able to be sailed on or through safely".

How many syllables are in navigable?

navigable has 4 syllables: nav-i-ga-ble. The stress falls on "nav". In IPA it is /ˈnævəɡəbəl/.

Is navigable a common word?

navigable 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.