perceivable

Questions about perceivable

What does perceivable mean?

perceivable means "capable of being perceived especially by sight or hearing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in perceivable?

perceivable has 4 syllables: per-cei-va-ble. The stress falls on "cei".

What is another word for perceivable?

Close synonyms include apprehensible, intelligible, graspable, understandable. 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 perceivable a common word?

perceivable 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.