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: prac-ti-ca-bi-li-ty. The stress falls on "bi".

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.