Is "arrangeable" a word?

SOTHC

9450 sites on Google would suggest it is May 27 05, 3:04 PM

lanfranco

It may appear in those sites, but it does not appear in either my OED or my Webster's. (The OED does include "rearrangeable.") This suggests that the word may often be used colloquially, it is not considered standard English. May 27 05, 3:35 PM

Baloo55th

It is in the Times Dictionary. May 27 05, 4:29 PM

TabbyTom

It's in the CD-ROM version of the OED, with quotations from Jeremy Bentham (1832: "Sanctions are arrangeable according to their nature, or according to their sources") and Thomas Carlyle (1858: "Let these be as in the Treaty of Utrecht; arrangeable in the lump.") May 27 05, 4:40 PM

lanfranco

That's interesting. I've been thinking about upgrading, since my OED is now about 20 years old; this may spur me on. May 27 05, 4:50 PM

mochyn

no it is a sentence May 27 05, 7:36 PM

gmackematix

Rather than looking for "arrangeable" in dictionaries, I looked up definitions of "word". Most seem to suggest that a word is a unit of meaningful speech. Whether it is found in dictionaries or not, "arrangeable" is clearly an adjective meaning capable of being arranged so fits most dictionaries' criteria for being a word. May 27 05, 8:32 PM

Halcyon91

somehow it's not on dictionary.com but Encarta Dictionary has it and it's an adjective. May 27 05, 10:41 PM

TheAlphaWolf

"no it is a sentence" maybe it's like marriage. To some, marriage is a word. To others a sentence. May 28 05, 11:29 AM

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