potable

1. 1.

   suitable for drinking

   Synonymsdrinkable

Other forms of potable

plural

potables·

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 potable

What does potable mean?

potable means "any liquid suitable for drinking". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in potable?

potable has 3 syllables: po-ta-ble. The stress falls on "po". In IPA it is /ˈpoʊtəbəl/.

What is another word for potable?

Close synonyms include beverage, drink, drinkable, drinkable. 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 potable a common word?

potable 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.