ratable

1. 1.

   liable to payment of locally assessed property taxes

   “the ratable value of property”

   Synonymsrateable

   Similartaxable

   United Kingdom

Questions about ratable

What does ratable mean?

ratable means "liable to payment of locally assessed property taxes".

How many syllables are in ratable?

ratable has 3 syllables: ra-ta-ble. The stress falls on "ra".

What is another word for ratable?

Close synonyms include rateable. 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 ratable a common word?

ratable 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.