câble
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,849
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
câble is aFrenchnoun. It means: Gros cordage formé de l’assemblage de plusieurs torons de chanvre, d’aloès, d’acier, etc. Pronounced \kabl\. It ranks #4,849 in French word frequency. Often confused with clé and cal.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | câble |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kabl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,849 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for câble is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,849 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for câble, with forms such as "cable", "cbâle", and "ccâble". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "clé", "cal", "cae", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is câble, spelled C-Â-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gros cordage formé de l’assemblage de plusieurs torons de chanvre, d’aloès, d’acier, etc.
- 2Moulure en forme de gros cordage.
- 3Cordon qui sert principalement à attacher les tableaux et à relever les tentures.
- 4Groupe de conducteurs électriques réunis sous une même enveloppe.
- 5Abréviation de câblogramme, message transmis par câble télégraphique ou télégramme.
- 6Technique permettant de diffuser des chaînes de télévision et de fournir un accès à l′internet, sans ondes hertziennes sur un réseau spécifique.
- 7Ancienne mesure de 120 brasses.
- 8Moulure décorative imitant une grosse corde. On dit aussi moulure câblée.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cable,cbâle,ccâble,câbble,câbel,câblle,câlbe,âcble
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for câble
Misspelling Variants of "câble"
Frequency rank: #4,849 in French
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