payable

Other forms of payable

plural

payables·

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 payable

What does payable mean?

payable means "a liability account showing how much is owed for goods and services purchased on credit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in payable?

payable has 3 syllables: pa-ya-ble. The stress falls on "pa". In IPA it is /ˈpeɪəbəl/.

What is another word for payable?

Close synonyms include account payable, collectible, collectable. 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 payable a common word?

payable is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with payable?

1 word rhymes with payable. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.