audible

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French audible, from Late Latin audibilis, from Latin audire (“to hear”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.dɪ.bəl/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (without the cot–caught merger, General American, dialects of Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.dɪ.bəl/, [ˈɔ.ɾɪ.bəl]
• (cot–caught merger, General American, dialects of Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.dɪ.bəl/, [ˈɑ.ɾɪ.bəl]
• (cot–caught merger, Canada, dialects of the US) IPA^(key): /ˈɒ.dɪ.bəl/, [ˈɒ.ɾɪ.bəl]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈoː.dɪ.bəl/, [ˈoː.ɾɪ.bəl]

Adjective

audible (comparative more audible, superlative most audible)

1. Able to be heard.

   Synonyms: hearable, sounded, vocal

   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

     "Now, look here, Jim Hawkins," he said, in a steady whisper, that was no more than audible […]

Antonyms

• inaudible
• quiet
• silent

Derived terms

• audibility
• audibilize
• audibleness
• audibly
• nonaudible
• semiaudible
• subaudible
• superaudible
• unaudible

Related terms

• audio
• auditory

Translations

able to be heard

• Arabic: مسموع
• Asturian: oyible
• Bulgarian: чуваем (čuvaem), доловим (bg) (dolovim)
• Catalan: oïble, audible (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聽得見的 / 听得见的 (zh) (tīng dé jiàn de)

• Czech: slyšitelný (cs) m
• Danish: hørbar (da), hørlig (da)
• Dutch: hoorbaar (nl)
• Esperanto: aŭdebla
• Finnish: kuuluva (fi)
• French: audible (fr)
• Galician: audíbel (gl)
• German: hörbar (de)
• Greek: ακουστός (el) (akoustós)
• Hungarian: hallható (hu)
• Irish: inchloiste, inchluinte
• Italian: udibile (it)
• Japanese: 可聴な (kachō na), 耳に聞こえる (ja) (mimi ni kikoeru), 音がする (oto ga suru)
• Latin: audibilis
• Macedonian: чуен m (čuen)
• Manx: so-chlashtyn, clashtynagh, cluinagh
• Marathi: श्राव्य (śrāvya)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hørbar, hørlig

  Nynorsk: høyrleg

• Old English: ġehīerendlīċ
• Polish: słyszalny (pl)
• Portuguese: audível (pt)
• Romanian: auzibil
• Russian: слы́шный (ru) (slýšnyj), слы́шимый (ru) (slýšimyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: so-chlaistinneach, cluinntineach, so-chluinntinn, so-chloiste, osgarra, labhar
• Serbo-Croatian: čujan (sh)
• Spanish: oíble (es), audible (es)
• Swedish: hörbar (sv)
• Turkish: işitilir (tr), işitilebilir, duyulur (tr), duyulabilir
• Ukrainian: чу́тний (čútnyj)
• Welsh: clywadwy (cy), clywedog, hyglyw (cy), trylais

Verb

audible (third-person singular simple present audibles, present participle audibling, simple past and past participle audibled)

1. (intransitive, American football) To change the play at the line of scrimmage by yelling out a new one.

   The quarterback audibled after seeing the defensive formation.

Noun

audible (plural audibles)

1. (American football) The act of or an instance of changing the play at the line of scrimmage by yelling out a new one.

   The audible changed the play to a run.

Derived terms

• call an audible

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin audibilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [əwˈðib.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [awˈði.ble]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [awˈðib.ble]

Adjective

audible m or f (masculine and feminine plural audibles)

1. audible

   Synonym: oïble

   Antonyms: inaudible, inoïble

Derived terms

• audibilitat
• inaudible

Further reading

• “audible”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “audible”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “audible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “audible”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin audibilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.dibl/

• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Saint-Étienne)):

  (file)

Adjective

audible (plural audibles)

1. audible

   Antonym: inaudible

Derived terms

• audiblement
• inaudible

Further reading

• “audible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewisder.

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *awizdiō

Late Latin audiō

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Late Latin -bilis

Late Latin audibilisbor.

Spanish audible

Borrowed from Late Latin audibilis. Doublet of oíble.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /auˈdible/ [au̯ˈð̞i.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -ible
• Syllabification: au‧di‧ble

Adjective

audible m or f (masculine and feminine plural audibles)

1. audible

   Synonym: oíble

   Antonym: inaudible

Derived terms

• audibilidad
• audiblemente
• inaudible
• registro audible

Further reading

• “audible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025