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papable

papable is the alternative form of papabile.

Meaning of papabile

Adjective

papabile (comparative more papabile, superlative most papabile)

  1. Being among those likely to be elected pope.
    • Vatican watchers have already anointed the Honduran prelate papabile or “popeable.”2001 February 20, May Ying Welsh, “Latin Cardinals hint at Church's future”, in CNN

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Forms of papable

Adjective
comparativemore papable
superlativemost papable
Noun
pluralpapables

Questions about papable

What is papable the alternative form of?
Papable is the alternative form of papabile.

Words near papable in the dictionary

  1. papa-bear
  2. papabile
  3. papabiles
  4. papabili
  5. papability
  6. papable
  7. papables
  8. papabot
  9. papabote
  10. papabotes
  11. papabots

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Adapted from Wiktionary: papable (page history and authors); papabile (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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