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Intelligibility in a sentence

Intelligibility meaning

  1. That which is intelligible; the degree to which something is intelligible.
  2. The quality of recorded speech of every word being understandable.

Synonyms of Intelligibility

comprehensibility understandability unintelligibility

Related words

Other words often associated with Intelligibility or its synonyms:

incomprehensibility quality bunk incoherence meaninglessness nonsense nonsensicality hokum

Using Intelligibility

  • The main meaning on this page is: That which is intelligible; the degree to which something is intelligible. | The quality of recorded speech of every word being understandable.
  • Useful related words include: comprehensibility, understandability, unintelligibility.
  • In the example corpus, intelligibility often appears in combinations such as: mutual intelligibility, intelligibility with, the intelligibility.

Context around Intelligibility

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 7 middle, 10 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

mutual 11× maintain 1× greater 1× improving 1× impair 1×

Often after:

criterion 1× makes 1× estimated 1× main 1× decreases 1×

Sentence patterns with Intelligibility

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

of mutual intelligibility 2× adequate for intelligibility 1× and the intelligibility of speech 1× citation mutual intelligibility decreases in 1× degree of intelligibility 1× distortion and intelligibility 1× high mutual intelligibility among them 1× lose mutual intelligibility 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

aesthetics chopin s 1× among its highest 1× beyond that distance 1× by many general 1× cases may also 1× eastern slovak dialects 1×

Common sentence endings:

of mutual intelligibility 2× adequate for intelligibility 1× common scandinavian language 1× degree of intelligibility 1× distortion and intelligibility 1× flight cabin safety 1×

Words around Intelligibility

Just before it in the word index:

intelligentsia 46 intelligently 64 intelligent 1.327 intelligencia 2 intelligences 19 intelligencers 2

Just after it in the word index:

intelligible 113 intelligibly 4 intellishare 2 intellivision 25 intellivoice 2 intels 4

Similar in corpus frequency:

abaribe 41 abbasids 41 abstentions 41 acadians 41 acrisure 41 acrobats 41

Corpus analysis for Intelligibility

  • In this selection, "intelligibility" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, mutual, maintain, greater, criterion, makes and estimated stand out and add context to how "intelligibility" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include of mutual intelligibility and adequate for intelligibility. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "intelligibility" sits close to words such as abaribe, abbasids and abstentions, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with intelligibility

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Beyond that distance dialects and languages lose mutual intelligibility. (9 words)

Among its highest priorities is to maintain intelligibility with the language spoken in Sweden. (14 words)

Molesworth, B. R. C., Burgess, M. Improving intelligibility at a safety critical point: In flight cabin safety. (17 words)

Longer example sentences

The headphones would improve identification and the intelligibility of speech, and would simulate a virtual audio environment (like a conference room) so listeners would be able to identify and hear other speakers as if they were all in the same place. (41 words)

In fact, they've fallen short of it but – difficult as it is for me to understand – a modern sophist might say that these last years have actually demanded a reduction in conscience and feeling in the name of greater intelligibility. (41 words)

Aesthetics Chopin's poesie sonore aesthetics included a deliberate cultivation of a barbarian approach in production, using raw or crude sound manipulations to explore the area between distortion and intelligibility. (30 words)

Example sentences (20)

The headphones would improve identification and the intelligibility of speech, and would simulate a virtual audio environment (like a conference room) so listeners would be able to identify and hear other speakers as if they were all in the same place.

Aesthetics Chopin's poesie sonore aesthetics included a deliberate cultivation of a barbarian approach in production, using raw or crude sound manipulations to explore the area between distortion and intelligibility.

Among its highest priorities is to maintain intelligibility with the language spoken in Sweden.

Beyond that distance dialects and languages lose mutual intelligibility.

By many general criteria of mutual intelligibility, the Continental Scandinavian languages could very well be considered dialects of a common Scandinavian language.

Cases may also arise in which a speaker of dialect X can understand a speaker of dialect Y, but not vice versa; the mutual intelligibility criterion flounders here as well.

Eastern Slovak dialects have the greatest degree of mutual intelligibility with Rusyn of all the Slovak dialects, but both lack technical terminology and upper register expressions.

Ethnologue lists Mon dialects as Martaban-Moulmein (Central Mon, Mon Te), Pegu (Mon Tang, Northern Mon), and Ye (Mon Nya, Southern Mon), with high mutual intelligibility among them.

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For example, in voiceband speech coding, only information in the frequency band 400 Hz to 3500 Hz is transmitted but the reconstructed signal is still adequate for intelligibility.

In fact, they've fallen short of it but – difficult as it is for me to understand – a modern sophist might say that these last years have actually demanded a reduction in conscience and feeling in the name of greater intelligibility.

In speech coding, the most important criterion is preservation of intelligibility and "pleasantness" of speech, with a constrained amount of transmitted data.

In this case the criterion of mutual intelligibility makes it impossible to decide whether A and C are dialects of the same language or not.

It is likely that he taught in several closely related dialects of Middle Indo-Aryan, which had a high degree of mutual intelligibility.

Molesworth, B. R. C., Burgess, M. Improving intelligibility at a safety critical point: In flight cabin safety.

Most of these groups are mutually unintelligible, although some, like Xiang and certain Southwest Mandarin dialects, may share common terms and some degree of intelligibility.

Mutual intelligibility (estimated at 90% by R. A. Hall, Jr., 1989) citation is excellent between Galicians and northern Portuguese, and also between Galicians and Brazilians.

Mutual intelligibility main Czech and Slovak have been considered mutually intelligible ; speakers of either language can communicate with greater ease than those of any other pair of West Slavic languages.

Old Urdu dictionaries also contain most of the Sanskrit words now present in Hindi. citation citation Mutual intelligibility decreases in literary and specialized contexts that rely on educated vocabulary.

Pg. 145–146: "The three East Slavonic languages are very close to one another, with very high rates of mutual intelligibility.

Pronunciation Differences in stress, weak forms and standard pronunciation of isolated words occur between Australian English and other forms of English, which while noticeable do not impair intelligibility.

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Common combinations with intelligibility

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "intelligibility" in a sentence?
An example: "The headphones would improve identification and the intelligibility of speech, and would simulate a virtual audio environment (like a conference room) so listeners would be able to identify and hear other speakers as if they were all in the same place." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "intelligibility" from authentic English texts.
What does "intelligibility" mean?
Intelligibility means: That which is intelligible; the degree to which something is intelligible.
What are synonyms of "intelligibility"?
Common synonyms of "intelligibility" include: comprehensibility, understandability, unintelligibility.
How many example sentences with "intelligibility" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "intelligibility", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.