visible
/ˈvɪzɪb(ə)l/adjective
visible is spelled V-I-S-I-B-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is visable: about 2,010 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Visible is an adjective meaning “Able to be seen”.
How many letters and syllables are in visible?
| Letters | 7: V-I-S-I-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 25 times per million words; the 3,683rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, visable, about 2,010 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 visible?
Visible is spelled V-I-S-I-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 13 of the searches for visible 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 visible?
Visible appears 25 times per million words in written English, the 3,683rd 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 visible?
- /ˈvɪzɪb(ə)l/
- /ˈvɪzəb(ə)l/
Visible 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)-Back_ache-visible.wav, En-us-visible.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of visible
- more visible comparative
- most visible superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does visible mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Able to be seen.
When the sun rises, the world becomes visible.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Visible in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense able 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 visible come from?
From Middle English visible, from Old French visible, from Late Latin visibilis (“that may be seen”), from Latin videre (“to see”), past participle visus; see vision. Displaced native Old English ġesewenlīċ.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).