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How to spell invisible

What it means: Not able to be seen or noticed.

In a sentence: The magician made the rabbit invisible with a wave of his wand. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as invisable or invisble.

How learners on Spelling.School have misspelled it: zzz

Same family: visibility, visibly, vision, visual, envision. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Invisible comes from Latin 'in-' meaning 'not' and 'visibilis' meaning 'able to be seen.' It is closely related to the word 'vision,' so you can remember it as something 'not vision-able'—not able to be seen.

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

Try spelling it

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

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