possible

Other forms of possible

plural

possibles·

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 possible

What does possible mean?

possible means "something that can be done". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in possible?

possible has 3 syllables: pos-si-ble. The stress falls on "pos". In IPA it is /ˈpɑsəbəl/.

What is another word for possible?

Close synonyms include potential. 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.

What is the opposite of possible?

The recorded antonyms are impossible.

Is possible a common word?

possible is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 possible?

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