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writeable

writeable is the alternative spelling of writable.

Meaning of writable

Adjective

writable (comparative more writable, superlative most writable)

  1. Capable of being written.
    • Are sign languages writable?
  2. (usually, storage device) Capable of being written to.
    • The file is writable only for users in the admin group.
  3. mutable
    • In general, writable variables must have unique instances per processor executing a shader and therefore cannot be shared.2009, Randi J. Rost, Bill M. Licea-Kane, Dan Ginsburg, OpenGL Shading Language

Words formed from writeable

Questions about writeable

What is writeable the alternative spelling of?
Writeable is the alternative spelling of writable.

Words near writeable in the dictionary

  1. write-throughs
  2. write-up
  3. write-ups
  4. write-what-where
  5. writeability
  6. writeable
  7. writeback
  8. writebacks
  9. writebehind
  10. writebehinds
  11. writeblr

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Adapted from Wiktionary: writeable (page history and authors); writable (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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