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monostable

adjective

monostable is spelled M-O-N-O-S-T-A-B-L-E: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, monostable means “Having more than one state, only one of which is stable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in monostable?

Letters10: M-O-N-O-S-T-A-B-L-E
In writingabout once in every 72 million words; the 269,040th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is monostable?

Monostable appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

What does monostable mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Having more than one state, only one of which is stable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Monostable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense electronics: having more than one state, only one of which is stable:

LanguageWords
Frenchmonostable

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does monostable come from?

From mono- + stable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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