How to spell visible

hear itvis·i·ble/'vɪzəbəl/adjectiveRules and real life

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. Often misspelled as visable or vissible.

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).

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

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