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Is the word " Customizable " a valid English word?

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Is the word " Customizable " a valid English word?

Every time I write that word, the spell checker underlines it, and it suggests using "Customization" or "Customize".

I'm not a native English speaker, but that word exists in online dictionaries so I wonder why the spell checker underlines it.

Customized and Custom-made mean slightly different things.

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Custom-made means that your product is made to order.

Customized means that a person can personalize their order.

If you wanted to convey both you could say "Customizable and Made-to-order" or even just "Custom-made and Customizable" (yes customizable is barely a word but that's not important because even if people look at it and think ...

Snowclone: A snowclone is a customizable formulaic phrase that consists of a framework that can be adapted for different situations by changing some of the words.

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It's typically expressed in terms of the invariable part of the phrase with blanks represented by X, Y, and Z, for example, X is the new Y.

We need a term to describe an element with an customizable look (for example, if it's a text, one can customize its font and foreground color).

Can we use the term "stylizable" for that?

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