<entry id="2197605" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>2855641</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>食える</keb>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>くえる</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&v1;</pos>
<pos>&vi;</pos>
<gloss>to be tasty</gloss>
<gloss>to be worth eating</gloss>
<gloss>to be worth trying</gloss>
</sense>
<sense>
<pos>&v1;</pos>
<pos>&vi;</pos>
<gloss>to be able to subsist</gloss>
<gloss>to be able to make a living</gloss>
</sense>
<sense>
<pos>&v1;</pos>
<pos>&vi;</pos>
<gloss>to be edible</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2022-07-21 04:39:06" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Worth having? I guess it's not in JMdict already because it's just the potential form of 食う.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>I referenced meikyo, oukoku, iwakoku, and shinmeikai.
Sense [1] isn't in shinmeikai, but the other kokugos have it first.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーー─┬─────────┬───────╮
│ 食える │ 370,453 │ 96.0% │
│ くえる │  15,505 │  4.0% │
╰─ーーー─┴─────────┴───────╯</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-07-21 04:40:22" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>(Correction: sense [3] isn't in shinmeikai)</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-07-21 06:10:12" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>GG5, 中辞典, etc, have it.</upd_refs>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>