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plausible

adjective/ˈplɔzəb(ə)l/

likely to be true

There was only one plausible explanation to the theft and it meant someone was involved on the inside.

logicalpossibleprobable
word origin — mid 16th century (also in the sense ‘deserving applause or approval’): from Latin plausibilis, from plaus- ‘applauded’, from the verb plaudere