gabel
/ˈɡeɪbəl/
"gabel" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gabel” is uncommon English (frequency #85,275 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,275
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any rent, charge, tribute, custom, tax, duty, excise etc.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gabel · gabel · English
gabel · rank #85,275 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,275
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gamesmanship
Nearest frequency peer: gamesmanship (+2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “gabel”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Funes
Funes
14,731 corpus weight
- Furby
Furby
14,730 corpus weight
- gabel
gabel
14,726 corpus weight
- gamesmanship
gamesmanship
14,724 corpus weight
- gamey
gamey
14,723 corpus weight
- garnets
garnets
14,719 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gabel” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gabel |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡeɪbəl/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,275 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gabel” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gabel is uncommon English at frequency #85,275 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɡeɪbəl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gabel, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French gabelle, from Late Latin gabella, gabulum, gablum; of uncertain origin. Compare gavel (“tribute”). The correct English form is gabel, spelled G-A-B-E-L.
Definition
- 1Any rent, charge, tribute, custom, tax, duty, excise etc.
- 2Obsolete spelling of gable
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gabel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He enables St. Peter to pay his gabel by the ministry of a fish.
The same Imposition might also be made on the Tin spent at home, unless it be as impossible so to do, as for the King of France to impose the Gabel upon Salt in the very places where it is made.
Etymology
From French gabelle, from Late Latin gabella, gabulum, gablum; of uncertain origin. Compare gavel (“tribute”).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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