tractability

Other forms of tractability

plural

tractabilities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tractability

What does tractability mean?

tractability means "the trait of being easily persuaded".

How many syllables are in tractability?

tractability has 5 syllables: trac-ta-bi-li-ty. The stress falls on "bi".

What is another word for tractability?

Close synonyms include tractableness, flexibility. 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 tractability?

The recorded antonyms are intractability.

Is tractability a common word?

tractability 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.