Alternative spelling of confinable; able to be confined or kept within limits.
Variant form of confinable using the -eable spelling instead of -able. Both forms derive from confine (French confiner) + suffix, with this version treating confine as ending in silent 'e.'
The two spellings—confinable and confineable—reveal how English spelling rules create genuine alternatives: the 'e' before '-able' follows rules for verbs ending in silent-e, but both versions are considered acceptable.
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