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How to spell incredible

Incredible is spelled I-N-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-E.

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.

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.”

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Words like this

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

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