Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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legible

/ˈlɛd͡ʒəbl/ adjective

  1. adjective Clear enough to be read; readable, particularly of handwriting. “Despite hardly having any energy to lift a pen, she left a legible note on the paper.”
  2. adjective Written or phrased so as to be easy to understand. “You can make this program code more legible by using meaningful variable names.”

Synonyms

clean clear decipherable fair readable

Antonyms

illegible unreadable

Etymology

From Late Latin legibilis (“that can be read”), from Latin legō.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Capable of being read or deciphered; distinct to the eye; plain; - -used of writing or printing; as, a fair, legible manuscript.
  2. adjective Capable of being discovered or understood by apparent marks or indications; as, the thoughts of men are often legible in their countenances.

Etymology [L. legibilis, fr. legere to read: cf. OF. legible. See Legend.]

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “legible”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “legible” (best matches first).