câbler

/\kɑ.ble\/ verb

The verdict

“câbler” is an uncommon French word, ranked #90,599 in French word frequency and used as a verb.

#90,599
frequency rank, French
6
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Brancher un câble.

Key facts for câbler
PropertyValue
Headwordcâbler
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kɑ.ble\
Letters6
Frequency rank#90,599
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “câbler” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). câbler lands here:

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

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for câbler is 6 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɑ.ble\. Corpus data places it at rank #90,599 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for câbler in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 câbler, spelled C-Â-B-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Brancher un câble.
  2. 2
    Brancher un câble.
  3. 3
    Assembler plusieurs cordes et les tordre ensemble pour n’en faire qu’une seule.
  4. 4
    Envoyer une dépêche par câble télégraphique.
  5. 5
    Péter un câble.

Antonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #90,599 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "câbler"?
"câbler" is spelled C-Â-B-L-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \kɑ.ble\.
What does "câbler" mean?
As a verb, "câbler" means: Brancher un câble.
How do you pronounce "câbler"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "câbler" is \kɑ.ble\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "câbler" come from?
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Using “câbler”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is C-Â-B-L-E-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \kɑ.ble\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

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Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.