HOW TO PRONOUNCE
payable
/ˈpeɪəbəl/
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Start with a strong “pay.”
Follow the long a with a separate light uh, then move through b into another light vowel before l, without shifting the primary stress.
3 syllables · Stress on syllable 1
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“The notice lists the amount payable.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does payable mean?
adjective
- Due to be paid.
- Able to be paid.
- Of a mine etc.: capable of yielding profit; profitable.
More meanings (2)
noun
- Debts owed by a business; liabilities.
- A thing that may be paid.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈpeɪəbəl/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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Under the Saxon laws, fines, payable to the injured party, seem to have been the common punishments for all offences.
That disadvantage is not diminished, when that pressure necessitates the drawing of stipendiary emoluments, before those emoluments are strictly due and payable.
More book examples (3)
A parson of the neighborhood came with great meekness to ask for a bill for the other world payable to the bearer.
He will buy and sell stocks, shares, annuities, &c., for her, and collect dividends, interest, coupons, &c., payable anywhere at home or abroad.
It would, after such an alteration, be payable with the same quantity of gold as before, but with very different quantities of silver.