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A word from the ledger

Stackable and expandable

Nine listings print stackable or expandable, and all but one of them are shoe racks. Four of the nine print any measurement at all.

Words in quotation marks are the sellers’ own, quoted from the listings

9

Listings that print the word

4

Also state assembled dimensions

Nine listings print stackable and expandable (9); four of them also state assembled dimensions (4).

Where it is printed

Standing Shoe Racks
8
Home Office Desks
0
Bookcases
1
Home Office Desk Chairs
0
Dressers & Chests of Drawers
0

Spellings counted

stackable · expandable

Who defines it

No document linked here defines either word. The FTC’s guide for small business says advertisers need objective evidence behind their claims. For a rack that expands, the plainest evidence would be its two widths, and one listing here prints them.

What the listings do with it

The racks that print expandable state their tiers, as every rack here does, but only one of the four gives the range: from 18 to 33 inches. The others print an adjustable width or adjustable storage and leave the figures out.

Stackable turns up on fixed racks and on a cube organizer. A stacked height would be the figure that settles it, and no listing prints one. The listings that give a full set of dimensions for a stackable piece give them for a single unit, not for a stack.

The organizer that prints stackable is the only bookcase listing to use any of the six words this site tracks, and it also describes itself for a dorm or teen room. That is the listing’s wording. This site does not extend it into anything else.

What the word does not promise

How far it expands or how high it stacks. The word describes a motion, not a distance.

The figure behind this word has its own count: Assembled dimensions.

Narrowing this word to a single category is the job of Word Check.

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