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invisible

/ɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l/adjective, verb

invisible is spelled I-N-V-I-S-I-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is invisble: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 65 of all searches for the word. Invisible is an adjective meaning “Unable to be seen; out of sight; not visible”.

How many letters and syllables are in invisible?

Letters9: I-N-V-I-S-I-B-L-E
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing12 times per million words; the 6,138th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, invisble, about 100 Bing searches a month (all of them)

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).

How do you spell invisible?

Invisible is spelled I-N-V-I-S-I-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 65 of the searches for invisible in either form.

invisiblethe right spelling6,430 searches a month
invisblea missing i100 searches a month

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 invisible?

Invisible appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,138th 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 invisible?

  • /ɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l/

Invisible has 4 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: En-us-invisible.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of invisible

  • invisibles present, singular, he/she/it
  • invisibling participle, present
  • invisibled participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does invisible mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Unable to be seen; out of sight; not visible.

  2. 2

    Not appearing on the surface.

  3. 3

    Apparently, but not actually, offline.

    I went invisible so that my ex-girlfriend wouldn't send me instant messages.

  4. 4

    That is ignored by a person.

verb

  1. 1

    To make invisible, to invisiblize.

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteAn invisible person or thing; specifically, God, the Supreme Being.

  2. 2

    obsoleteA Rosicrucian; so called because avoiding declaration of his craft.

  3. 3

    obsoleteOne of those (as in the 16th century) who denied the visibility of the church.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate invisible?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of invisible: invis.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Invisible in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchinvisible (unable to be seen), caché (not appearing on the surface)
Germanunsichtbar (unable to be seen), versteckt (not appearing on the surface)
Portugueseinvisível (unable to be seen)
Spanishinvisible (unable to be seen)

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 invisible come from?

From Middle English invisible, from Old French invisible, from Late Latin invīsibilis. Displaced native Old English unġesewenlīċ. Morphologically in- + visible. Piecewise doublet of unvisible.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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