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Payable vs Sayable - What's the difference?

payable | sayable |

As adjectives the difference between payable and sayable

is that payable is that which is to be paid while sayable is capable of being pronounced or uttered; articulable.

As a noun payable

is (plural) debts owed by a business; liabilities.

payable

English

Noun

  • (plural) Debts owed by a business; liabilities.
  • A thing that may be paid.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That which is to be paid.
    • Is value added tax payable on planning application fees?
  • Able to be paid.
  • Of a mine etc.: capable of yielding profit; profitable.

    • Derived terms

    *payability *payably

    sayable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Capable of being pronounced or uttered; articulable.
  • Susceptible of being stated clearly or effectively.

    • References

    * *" sayable" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus © Wordsmyth 2002. *Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996.