playable

Able to be played.

Adjective

  1. Able to be played.
    • Not all compact discs are playable in car stereos.
    • That original list of 2,315 solutions was embedded in the game’s code. That means the game was playable offline and could be downloaded onto phones or computers. The solutions to the original Wordle game were...
  2. Of a move, giving a reasonable result; able to be played without losing.
    • Is MAGICS a playable word in Scrabble?
  3. Of a game, able to be played and enjoyed.
    • Some of the most playable games tend to be those that've been around the longest: the Breakout/Arkanoid/Batty imitators for instance, or, as here, the Asteroids clones. - 1989, Matt Bielby, Blasteroids (game review in...

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *plehan Old English pleġan Proto-West Germanic *plegō Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-West Germanic *-ōn Proto-West Germanic *plegōn Old English plegian Middle English pleyen Proto-West Germanic *plegō Old English plega Middle English pleye English play Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English playable From play + -able.

Related

playability

Derived

nonplayable unplayable

Noun

  1. A character in a game who may be chosen as the player character.

Forms

playables