How Many Syllables in Comfortable?

🤔 Why do people disagree about Comfortable?

Common answers: 3 or 4 syllables.

Spelled com-fort-a-ble (four syllables), but the everyday pronunciation is COMF-ter-bul — three syllables with the R jumping to a new position (a process called metathesis). Both counts are defensible; speech says three, spelling says four.

See all famously tricky syllable words →

The word Comfortable has 4 syllables: com-fort-able.
Syllable division helps in understanding the word's structure, improving both pronunciation and spelling.
This technique is especially useful for students and language learners who are mastering English phonetics.

Definition of Comfortable

giving physical ease and relaxation

How should Comfortable divide into syllables

There are three syllables in the word 'comfortable'. The vowels are 'o' and 'a', and the consonants are 'c', 'm', 'f', 'r', 't', 'b', and 'l'.

Part of Speech - Comfortable

I feel comfortable in my bed.

Sentences with Comfortable

• The couch is very comfortable to sit on.
• I wear comfortable shoes when I go for a walk.
• I like to wear comfortable clothes when I'm at home.
• The bed is very comfortable to sleep in.
• I feel comfortable around my friends.
• The temperature in the room is very comfortable.
• I feel comfortable with my teacher.
• The chair is not very comfortable.
• This pillow is very comfortable.
• I feel comfortable in this house.

Quotes with Comfortable

• A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. - Jane Austen
• The most comfortable and enduring of the great material privileges enjoyed by our ancestors were those bestowed by the church, the monasteries, and the cathedrals. - Winston Churchill
• A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. - Sydney Smith
• All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me. - Tupac Shakur
• The only way to be truly comfortable in this world is to be truly alone. - Jonathan Franzen
• I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. - Hugh Hefner
• The best way to stay healthy is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. - Mark Twain
• A good laugh is a mighty good thing, a rather too scarce a good thing. - Herman Melville
• When you're comfortable with someone, you don't look for anyone else. - Daniel Craig
• I can be very comfortable with guys. I've always had a lot of guy friends. - Elizabeth Hurley
• Better to be the one who smiled than the one who didn't smile back. - Unknown
• The best things in life are the people we love, the places we've been, and the memories we've made along the way. - Unknown
• I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. - Stephen Covey
• The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. - Socrates
• Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. - Soren Kierkegaard
• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. - Mahatma Gandhi
• The only way to do great work is to love what you do. - Steve Jobs
• Believe you can and you're halfway there. - Theodore Roosevelt
• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill
• The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Nelson Mandela

Number of characters in Comfortable

11 ( c, o, m, f, o, r, t, a, b, l, e )

Unique letters in Comfortable

10 ( c, o, m, f, r, t, a, b, l, e )

Comfortable Backwards

elbatrofmoc

How to Pronounce Comfortable

IPA (International): ˈkʌmfɜ:tʌbʌl

ARA (American): ˈkʌmfɝtʌbʌl

EPA (English): ˈkʌmfɜ:tʌbʌl

KAH-MFER-TAH-BAH-L