edible
/ˈɛdəbəl/adjective, noun
edible is spelled E-D-I-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is edable: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 244 of all searches for the word. Edible is an adjective meaning “Capable of being eaten without harm; suitable for consumption; innocuous to humans”.
How many letters and syllables are in edible?
| Letters | 6: E-D-I-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.3 times per million words; the 12,397th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, edable, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell edible?
Edible is spelled E-D-I-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 243 of the searches for edible in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is edible?
Edible appears 4.3 times per million words in written English, the 12,397th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce edible?
- UK /ˈɛdɪbəl/
- UK [ˈɛdɪbɫ̩]
- US /ˈɛdəbəl/
Edible has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-edible.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with edible
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with edible?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as edible from its last stressed vowel (/ɛdəbəl/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of edible
- edibles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does edible mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Capable of being eaten without harm; suitable for consumption; innocuous to humans.
edible fruit
- 2
Capable of being eaten without disgust or disrelish.
Although stale, the bread was edible.
- 3
In which edible plants are grown for human consumption.
noun
- 1
Anything edible.
- 2
In particular, an edible mushroom.
- 3
A foodstuff, usually a baked good, infused with tetrahydrocannabinol and/or other cannabinoids from cannabutter or other marijuana.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Edible in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | comestible , mangeable |
| German | essbar, eßbar |
| Portuguese | comestível, edível, comível |
| Spanish | comestible , comible, edible |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does edible come from?
From Late Latin edibilis, from Latin edō (“eat”). Doublet of eatable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).