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How to spell plausible

Plausible is spelled P-L-A-U-S-I-B-L-E.

What it means: Reasonable and credible.

In a sentence: It's plausible that the missing cat is hiding in the garden. ▶

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Same family: implausible, plausibly, implausibly, credibile, reasonable. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Plausible” comes from the Latin word *plausibilis*, meaning “deserving applause,” from *plaudere* (“to applaud, to clap”). Over time, the sense shifted from “praiseworthy” to “seeming reasonable or believable” in English.

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