playable

English

Etymology

From play +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

playable (not comparable)

1. Able to be played.

   Not all compact discs are playable in car stereos.

2. (games) Of a move, giving a reasonable result; able to be played without losing.

   Is MAGICS a playable word in Scrabble?

3. (games) Of a game, able to be played and enjoyed.
   • 1989, Matt Bielby, Blasteroids (game review in Your Sinclair issue 40, April 1989)

     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.

Related terms

• playability

Translations

able to be played

• Dutch: speelbaar (nl)
• Finnish: soitettavissa, soittokelpoinen
• French: jouable (fr)
• Galician: xogable m or f, reproducible (gl) m or f
• German: spielbar (de)
• Portuguese: jogável
• Spanish: jugable (es), reproducible
• Swedish: spelbar (sv)

able to be played and enjoyed

• Asturian: xugable
• Russian: играбельный (ru) (igrabelʹnyj), увлекательный (ru) (uvlekatelʹnyj), интересный (ru) (interesnyj)

of a game, able to be played and enjoyed

• Asturian: xugable
• Dutch: speelbaar (nl)
• French: jouable (fr)
• Galician: xogable m or f
• German: spielbar (de)
• Portuguese: jogável
• Spanish: jugable (es)
• Swedish: spelbar (sv), spelvärd

Noun

playable (plural playables)

1. (video games) A character in a game who may be chosen as the player character.