bankable

\bɑ̃.kabl\

/\bɑ̃.kabl\/ adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bankable » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for bankable
PropertyValue
Headwordbankable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\bɑ̃.kabl\
Letters8
Frequency rank#80,903
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « bankable » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.bankabletombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « ballants » (#80,902), « bannissant » (#80,904), « balbutiant » (#80,901). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « bankable » est au #80,903. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Variante orthographique de bancable.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how bankable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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 ?
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bankable"?
"bankable" is spelled B-A-N-K-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bɑ̃.kabl\.
What does "bankable" mean?
As an adjective, "bankable" means: Variante orthographique de bancable.
How do you pronounce "bankable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bankable" is \bɑ̃.kabl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bankable", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list