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Meanings of pronounceable in English

Capable of being uttered or pronounced.

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        Examples for "unpronounceable"
        1
        I had experienced other languages before but I found this one unpronounceable.
        The Irish Times
        2
        Their last names were unpronounceable, so they were called Pavel and Peter.
        My Antonia
        3
        Her real name was peasant Mexican, almost unpronounceable even to his tongue.
        Stinger
        4
        They call him Jones, but that's because his name is so unpronounceable.
        The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake; Or, the Hermit of Fern Island
        5
        Sankey, to start with, had a peculiar name-anunpronounceable, unspellable, unmanageable name.
        Golden Stories / A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost...
        Usage of pronounceable in English
        1
        So you insert a dummy e vowel just so that's it's pronounceable.
        Wired
        2
        They consisted of two or more words, or portions of words, welded together in an easily pronounceable form.
        Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
        3
        The future Mrs Trump did not look back, changing her name to the more easily pronounceable Melania Knauss.
        Reuters
        4
        In any case it is a barren concession, because, as we have seen, telegraphic addresses must be pronounceable.
        Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, April 14, 1920
        5
        All subjects silently read words and pronounceable non-words in an event related potentials (ERP) investigation, as well.
        Pubmed
        6
        WHO's task was to find a name that didn't demonize a particular place, animal, individual, or group of people and which was also pronounceable.
        Wired
        7
        If you were schmoozing a client, you wanted to buy something good (but not too good), with a recognisable and pronounceable name.
        The Irish Times
        8
        It was readable, in the sense that she had set up a purely arbitrary but consistently pronounceable system of phonetic values for the letters.
        Omnilingual
        9
        Within this small easily pronounceable word lurks a magnitude not readily assimilated.We all know it is a multiple of a million, but what a multiple!
        The Irish Times
        10
        [Footnote 3: Mugalan, the Singhalese name of this disciple, is more pronounceable.
        Chinese Literature / Comprising the Analects of Confucius, the S...
        11
        "Al-Kajari" is the corruption, which denotes its foreign origin, and renders its name pronounceable to Arabs.
        Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volu...
        12
        "My full name is not pronounceable in English."
        First contact: or, it's later than you think
        13
        (5) Must be pronounceable.
        Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, April 14, 1920
        14
        So you insert a dummy e vowel just so that's it's pronounceable.
        Wired
        15
        They consisted of two or more words, or portions of words, welded together in an easily pronounceable form.
        Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
        16
        The future Mrs Trump did not look back, changing her name to the more easily pronounceable Melania Knauss.
        Reuters
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