How to spell portable

hear itport·a·ble/'poʊrtəbəl/adjectiveSchwa and roots

What it means: Easily moved or carried.

In a sentence: The portable radio goes with me to the park.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as portible or portabel.

Same family: portable (adjective: able to be carried easily), transport, import, export, portfolio. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Portable comes from the Latin verb *portare*, meaning “to carry.” The noun sense referring to a small, light typewriter grew out of the adjective “portable,” because these machines were designed to be carried in a case.

Patterns it uses: -able or -ible?

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