How to spell readable

hear itread·a·ble/'ridəbəl/adjectivePrefixes and work

What it means: Easy to read or understand.

In a sentence: The book is written in big, clear letters, so it's very readable.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as redable or readible.

Same family: reader, reading, readability, reread, unreadable. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Readable” comes from the verb “read” plus the suffix “-able,” which means “capable of” or “easy to.” English borrowed “-able” from Latin through French, and we see it in many similar adjectives, like “understandable” and “comfortable.”

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

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