-ível
Portuguese, suffix/ˈi.vew/
-ível is spelled Í-V-E-L (4 letters) and appears about once in every 56 million words in written Portuguese, the 209,413th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). -ível is a Portuguese feminine suffix meaning “-able, -ible; alternative form of -ável” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “sufixo formador de adjetivos a partir de verbos, com a ideia de "pode-se/é possível/é imaginável/é passível…”.
What does -ível mean in English?
suffix
- 1
femininemasculine-able, -ible; alternative form of -ável
abolir (“to abolish”) + -ível → abolível (“abolishable”)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que se pode ir, que é possível de se ir, que é possível de ser ido
suffix: 1. sufixo formador de adjetivos a partir de verbos, com a ideia de "pode-se/é possível/é imaginável/é passível de"
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce -ível?
- Brazil /ˈi.vew/
- Brazil [ˈi.veʊ̯]
- Portugal /ˈi.vɛl/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is -ível in Portuguese?
-ível appears about once in every 56 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).