Is "performability" a word?

[texbodemer]

I keep getting a misspelled word indicator from Microsoft Word. Is performability a word, or a combination of two words?

[rockne10]

If we understand what it means does it make a difference? Just add it to the lexicon. Language evolves.

[DEEPNHOCK]

According to dictionary.com.... performaility....No.
According to others, it is a derivative of formability..

Formability...yes


  <a onmousedown="spk(this,{lk:'nx1fkx',en:'wotdau',io:'0',b:'wotd',tp:'lrl',m:'wotda u'})" href="#"></a><a target="_blank" href="http://dictionary.reference.com/audio.html/lunaWAV/F03/F0301100"><img border="0" src="http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/speaker.gif"></a> /ˌfɔrməˈbɪlɪti/ Show Spelled[fawr-muh-bil-i-tee] Show IPA
noun the capacity of a material, as sheet steel, to be readily bent, stamped, shaped, etc.


Origin:
1815–25; form + -ability

I keep getting a misspelled word indicator from Microsoft Word. Is performability a word, or a combination of two words?

[StudeRich]

Well since Studebaker said it in their 1961 advertizing, it HAS to be a word...come on!

[Chris_Dresbach]

We here tend to enjoy making our own words; words like "Unobtanium", "CASO", and in the form of a verb, "Studebakering". I guess "performability" is a word.......

[hi-peral]

Must be a real word...I heard on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzdXJnOFpWc

Al

[qsanford]

Performability is a word very near and dear to the hearts of '61 Lark fans. Really somes them up nicely!

[dnevin]

It is a word.

Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, Volume 9, Pg. 544.

"The capability of being performed."

[52-fan]

Performability is a word very near and dear to the hearts of '61 Lark fans. Really somes them up nicely!

"Somes" them up?

[DEEPNHOCK]

So, We can look to see Darryl Waltrip's word 'coopetition' soon then, huh?

It is a word.
Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, Volume 9, Pg. 544.
"The capability of being performed."

[rockne10]

Boogity,boogity!

[DEEPNHOCK]

Boogity,boogity!

Aaaarrrghhh.....
Get it right!
It's "Boogity, boogity, boogity....Let's go racin' boyz..."

(My personal most despised phrase in all of NASCAR)

[qsanford]

"Somes" them up?

Oops! Sums them up. Obviously, my brain is suffering from lack of "Performability"!

[52-fan]

Usually I don't point out errors like that. Since the discussion was words it seemed appropriate. We all make mistakes "sum" times. That's why lots of my posts are edited.

[dnevin]

So, We can look to see Darryl Waltrip's word 'coopetition' soon then, huh?

I gots "co-optation" and "co-optative" but no "coopetition."

I'm not sure the philologists are quite ready for Mr. Waltrip yet.