eatable

Other forms of eatable

plural

eatables·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about eatable

What does eatable mean?

eatable means "any substance that can be used as food". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in eatable?

eatable has 3 syllables: ea-ta-ble. The stress falls on "ea". In IPA it is /ˈitəbəl/.

What is another word for eatable?

Close synonyms include comestible, edible, pabulum, victual, victuals. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is eatable a common word?

eatable is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.