Spelling
Accessable or accessible?
Accessible is the right spelling. Accessable is a common misspelling of it.
ACCESSABLE has A where ACCESSIBLE has I.
Why people write ACCESSABLE
In an unstressed syllable, A, E, I and O all sound like a quick "uh", so the ear cannot tell which one is written.
Access + ible: two Cs, two Ss, then -IBLE.
How often ACCESSIBLE is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), ACCESSABLE appears 11 times for every 1,000 ACCESSIBLE, about once for every 91 correct uses.
Is ACCESSABLE a word?
No. ACCESSABLE is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. ACCESSIBLE is in all three and scores 16 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What accessible means
Capable of being accessed.
More words with the same mistake
The wrong vowel:
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