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How to spell incredible

What it means: Difficult to believe or understand; astonishing.

In a sentence: The view from the top of the mountain was incredible! ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as incredable or increadible.

Same family: credible, incredibly, credibility, credit, creditable. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Incredible” comes from Latin roots: in- meaning “not” and credere meaning “to believe.” It originally meant “not believable,” but in modern English it’s often used more positively to mean “amazing” or “extraordinary.”

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

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You will hear the word and a sentence. Type it and press Enter. Then four more words from the same level, so you know where you stand.

Words like this

invincible · invisible · eligible · credible · legible · negligible · sensible · tangible

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