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How to spell readable

Readable is spelled R-E-A-D-A-B-L-E.

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.

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.”

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