playable
nounEtymology From play + -able.
1
Video games A character in a game who may be chosen as the player character.
playable
adj/ˈpleɪəbəl/
Etymology From play + -able.
1
Able to be played.
- Not all compact discs are playable in car stereos.
- That original list of 2,315 solutions was embedded in the game’s code. That means the game was playable offline and could be downloaded onto phones or computers. The solutions to the original Wordle game were predetermined through October 20, 2027. The New York Times (NYT) hasn’t said if it plans to make any more changes or additions to that initial list.2022 February 15, David Goldman, “Why your Wordle answers might now be different than your friends’”, in CNN Business:
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.
- 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.1989, Matt Bielby, Blasteroids (game review in Your Sinclair issue 40, April 1989)
- Derived terms
- nonplayable, unplayable
- Related terms
- playability