How to spell audible

hear itau·di·ble/'ɔdəbəl/adjectiveSchwa and roots

What it means: Able to be heard or perceived by the ear.

In a sentence: The teacher's voice was audible from the playground.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as odible or audable.

Same family: inaudible, audibly, audio, audience, auditory. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Audible” comes from the Latin verb *audire*, meaning “to hear.” The same root appears in words like “audience” (people who listen) and “audio” (sound you can hear).

Patterns it uses: -able or -ible? · The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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