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transmissable

transmissable is the misspelling of transmissible.

Meaning of transmissible

Adjective

transmissible (not comparable)

  1. Capable of being transmitted from one person to another.
    • (but the last two are not interchangeable in formal registers)
  2. Capable of being transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver.
    Synonyms:
    transmittable
  3. Able to transmit a disease; infectious, contagious.
    • Because I think from a public health perspective, knowing that you are transmissible and going around transmitting, because sometimes that's not your main intention. I don't want to go around to transmit. But I think knowing that you are transmissible and still engaging in possible acts that might...Quoted in 2024, Lynette J Chua, Jack Jin Gary Lee, Contagion, Technology, and Law at the Limits (page 117)

Origin of transmissable

See transmiss + -able.

Questions about transmissable

What is transmissable the misspelling of?
Transmissable is the misspelling of transmissible.

Words near transmissable in the dictionary

  1. transmisogynoir
  2. transmisogyny
  3. transmisogyny-affected
  4. transmisogyny-exempt
  5. transmiss
  6. transmissable
  7. transmissed
  8. transmisses
  9. transmissibilities
  10. transmissibility
  11. transmissible

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Adapted from Wiktionary: transmissable (page history and authors); transmissible (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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