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How to spell eligible

Eligible is spelled E-L-I-G-I-B-L-E.

What it means: Qualified or worthy of being chosen.

In a sentence: You are eligible to join the soccer team if you are eight years old. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: eligibility, ineligible, qualification, suitable, entitled. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Eligible” comes from the Latin verb *eligere*, meaning “to pick out” or “to choose.” It’s related to other English words like “elect” and “election,” which also involve choosing.

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Words like this

legible · digestible · invincible · negligible · sensible · allergic · invisible · geologist

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