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How to spell visible

Visible is spelled V-I-S-I-B-L-E.

What it means: Able to be seen.

In a sentence: The big, bright moon was visible in the night sky. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: vision, visiblely, visibility, invisible, visual. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Visible comes from Latin "visibilis," from "vidēre" meaning "to see." It’s part of a big family of sight-related words like vision, visual, and visit (originally meaning to go see someone).

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