practicability

Questions about practicability

What does practicability mean?

practicability means "the quality of being usable".

How many syllables are in practicability?

practicability has 6 syllables and divides as prac-ti-ca-bi-li-ty 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.

What is another word for practicability?

Close synonyms include practicableness. 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.

What is the opposite of practicability?

The recorded antonyms are impracticability.

Is practicability a common word?

practicability 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.