walkable

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/ˈwɔːkəbəl/[ˈwɔːkəbɫ̩]

adjective

Able to be walked; suitable for pedestrians.

“Is the train station walkable from here?”

UncommonScrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivewalkable (comparative more walkable, superlative most walkable)

comparative more walkable · superlative most walkable

  1. Able to be walked; suitable for pedestrians.

    Cities were generally much more walkable before the mid-20th century.

    2 more examples

    This route is no longer walkable since the bush and the vines grew over it.

    What I found turned out to be one of the best beer-drinking destinations I’d visited in Europe, a friendly and undertouristed city of about 750,000 inhabitants — large enough to be interesting, though still walkable.

    2015 July 23, Evan Rail, “A Tasting Tour of Yorkshire’s Beers and Ales”, in The New York Times
  2. Short enough or close enough to be accessible by walking.

    Is the train station walkable from here?

    1 more example

    Just outside the city centre, briskly walkable and even more briskly busable from the main City site, Charlie Frears has his own medical library and teaching facilities[…]

    2005, Johnny Rich, The PUSH Guide to which University, page 172

Origin

Translations

French marchable
  • marchableable to be walked
Portuguese andável
  • andávelable to be walked
Romanian pietonal, bun de mers pe jos
  • pietonalable to be walked
  • bun de mers pe josable to be walked
Spanish caminable, transitable
  • caminableable to be walked
  • transitableable to be walked
Swedish promenadvänlig, på/inom gångavstånd
  • promenadvänligable to be walked
  • på/inom gångavståndclose enough

Rhymes & wordplay

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “walkable,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/walkable.

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