bankable
\bɑ̃.kabl\
The verdict
“bankable” is uncommon French (frequency #80,903 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,903
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de bancable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bankable · bankable · French
bankable · rank #80,903 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,903
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH ballants
Nearest frequency peer: ballants (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « bankable »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- balbutiant
balbutiant
19,100 corpus weight
- ballants
ballants
19,099 corpus weight
- bankable
bankable
19,098 corpus weight
- bannissant
bannissant
19,097 corpus weight
- baptismale
baptismale
19,096 corpus weight
- baptist
baptist
19,095 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bankable » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bankable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bɑ̃.kabl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,903 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bankable » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bankable is uncommon French at frequency #80,903 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bɑ̃.kabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de bancable.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bankable in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bankable, spelled B-A-N-K-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de bancable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bankable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du temps qu’il était ministre, ou même à l’époque où sa parole était « bankable » sur le marché des idées, quel non initié eût imaginé que Ferry était le salonard écervelé que l’on découvre aujourd’hui ?
François Fillon n’est pas surpris de se voir lâché de tous côtés. Snobé avant la primaire, redevenu « bankable » après sa victoire inattendue, infréquentable depuis l’annonce de sa mise en examen, il a appris à ne plus se faire aucune illusion sur le personnel politique, tout particulièrement au sein de sa propre famille.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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