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legible

adjective/ˈlɛdʒəbəl/

B1CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

Clear enough to be read easily, especially of handwriting in notes.

Your entry must be legible and signed, because the next shift relies on it entirely.

Similar: readable

Topic: Clinical handover in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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