How to spell convertible

hear itcon·vert·i·ble/kən'vɜrtəbəl/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: A car with a roof that can be removed or folded down.

In a sentence: The family took a drive in their new convertible with the top down.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as convertable or converitable.

Same family: conversion, convertible (adjective), convert (verb), converted, convertibility. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Convertible comes from the Latin verb 'convertere,' meaning 'to turn around' or 'to change.' The same root gives us words like 'convert' and 'conversion,' all carrying the idea of changing from one form to another.

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

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