How to spell edible

hear ited·i·ble/'ɛdəbəl/adjectiveSchwa and roots

What it means: Suitable for consumption as food.

In a sentence: The apple on the table is edible and ready to eat.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as edable or eatible.

Same family: inedible, eatable, edibility, food, consumable. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Edible” comes from Latin *edibilis*, from *edere* meaning “to eat.” It is related to other food words like “eat” and “eatable,” but keeps the classic Latin -ible ending that means “able to be.”

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

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