a. [f. SPELL v.2 + -ABLE.] Capable of being spelled or denoted by letters.
1837. Carlyle, Mirabeau, Misc. Ess. 1857, IV. 69. All manner of reviews and periodical literatures that Europe, in all its spellable dialects, had. Ibid. (1864), Fredk. Gt., XV. ii. IV. 21. District not important, not very spellable, though doubtless pronounceable by natives to it.
1895. A. Morrison, Child of the Jago, x. 108. There came a hoot or two, a ‘Yah!’ and other less spellable sounds, expressive of contempt and defiance.
