preferable

• præferable (archaic)
• preferrable

From French préférable

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɛf(ə)ɹəb(ə)l/
• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈfɜːɹəb(ə)l/ (less common)

preferable (comparative more preferable, superlative most preferable)

1. Better than some other option; preferred.
   • 2007, Ted Honderich, On political means and social ends, →ISBN, page 94:

     It is not to the point that an inequality of material goods, at high levels, may not be preferable to an equality of material goods at a lower level, precisely for such reasons as self-respect.

• preferably