How to spell plausible

hear itplau·si·ble/'plɔzəbəl/adjectiveSchwa and roots

What it means: Reasonable and credible.

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

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as plausable or plauzible.

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.

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

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