Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

backward incompatible

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.28 in modern English

Syllables
back-ward in-com-pat-i-ble
IPA
40
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
6
Syllables
15
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Incapable of interoperating with older systems.

Inflected Forms

more backward incompatible (comparative) most backward incompatible (superlative)

Phrases

backward incompatibility

Antonyms

backward compatible

Questions

What does backward incompatible mean?
Incapable of interoperating with older systems.

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