How to spell tangible

hear ittan·gi·ble/'tændʒəbəl/adjectiveSchwa and roots

What it means: Able to be touched or felt.

In a sentence: The teddy bear was so soft and tangible.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as tangeable or tangable.

Same family: intangible, tangibly, tactile, contact, tangent. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Tangible” comes from the Latin verb *tangere*, meaning “to touch.” It’s part of a large family of English words related to touch and contact, such as “tactile,” “contact,” and “contagious.”

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

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