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jmdict 2855641 Active (id: 2197605)
食える
くえる
1. [v1,vi]
▶ to be tasty
▶ to be worth eating
▶ to be worth trying
2. [v1,vi]
▶ to be able to subsist
▶ to be able to make a living
3. [v1,vi]
▶ to be edible

Conjugations


History:
3. A 2022-07-21 06:10:12  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
GG5, 中辞典, etc, have it.
2. A* 2022-07-21 04:40:22  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
(Correction: sense [3] isn't in shinmeikai)
1. A* 2022-07-21 04:39:06  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  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─┴─────────┴───────╯
  Comments:
Worth having? I guess it's not in JMdict already because it's just the potential form of 食う.

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