Word check
Is Simpler a Word?
Simpler appears in the word list Wordton searches, ENABLE plus a curated modern supplement, and scores 11 points in tile games.
Yes, it plays
tile score 11
any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
How to use it
Simpler is standard and preferred. Two-syllable adjectives ending in -le almost always take -er rather than more: simpler, abler, nobler, gentler. More simple is not wrong and occasionally reads better when you want to slow the sentence down or set up a contrast, but simpler is the default. The same pattern gives you simplest for the superlative. The related trap is the verb rather than the adjective: simplify keeps its y through simplified and simplifying, while simple simply drops nothing at all. Simplest is the superlative and behaves the same way, which is worth knowing because most simple almost never appears in edited prose.
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