<p>As all of you know,most of words that winish with ‘‘able’’ are adjectives.Lets make a list of nouns that finish with ‘‘able’’ .I`ll start</p>
<p>1.parable - a short simple story that teaches a moral or religious lesson, especially one of the stories told by Jesus in the Bible</p>
<p>fable: fabrication; a deliberately false or improbable account; also a short moral story about animals</p>
<p>It’s pretty easy to tell if “able” is being used as a suffix or if it is actually part of the word…</p>
<p>^^how is that ?</p>
<p>Look at the word without “able” attached to it, and see if it is still a word and if it makes sense with “able” attached to it. Par-able doesn’t make sense with able as a suffix of “par”. Therefore parable is a word in which able is not a suffix. F-able, that’s pretty obvious as well.</p>
<p>How about “unconscionable” … which means unscrupulous … which means acting immorally or without regard to right or wrong.</p>
<p>Sable?
Table?</p>
<p>doable…? manageable? are these even words? lol…</p>
<p>Nouns that begin with “able”? How about… cable? Gable?</p>
<p>OK, this is going off the deep end of geekiness, but…</p>
<p>$ zcat pgwht04.txt.gz | grep -E ‘>[a-zA-Z]{1,2}able’</p>
<h1>Arable</h1>
<h1>Cable</h1>
<h1>Dable</h1>
<h1>Doable</h1>
<h1>Enable</h1>
<h1>Fable</h1>
<h1>Gable</h1>
<h1>Hable</h1>
<h1>Inable</h1>
<h1>Liable</h1>
<h1>Sable</h1>
<h1>Stable</h1>
<h1>Suable</h1>
<h1>Table</h1>
<h1>Unable</h1>
<h1>Usable</h1>
<h1>Viable</h1>
<p>(the file is webster’s 1913 dictionary, from gutenberg)</p>
<p>label is el instead of le, but it think it should still count.</p>