parsable

English

Alternative forms

• parseable

Etymology

From parse +‎ -able.

Adjective

parsable (comparative more parsable, superlative most parsable)

1. (grammar, computing) Able to be parsed.

   Well-formed XML is an example of parsable text.

   • 2019, Hannes Hapke, Cole Howard, Hobson Lane, Natural Language Processing in Action‎^[1], Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     The regular languages are also efficiently parsable and used extensively in computing for string matching.

Usage notes

Both the spellings parsable and parseable are widely used with similar frequency; the spelling parsable (without the ‘e’) is preferred in formal usage, according to the rule:

“Verbs drop silent final -e except after c and g (e.g. movable but changeable)”

as mentioned in the OED, and used in W3C standards.

Translations

Translations

• Czech: parsovatelný m, parsovatelná f
• Finnish: jäsennettävissä oleva
• French: analysable (fr), décomposable (fr)
• Polish: dający się parsować, analizowalny

References

• Re: Bug#124757: parsable vs. parseable

Anagrams

• parables, prebasal, sparable