capable
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,222
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
capable is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est en état de faire une chose ; qui a la capacité. Pronounced \ka.pabl\. It ranks #1,222 in French word frequency. Often confused with cavale and capsule.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ka.pabl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,222 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for capable is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.pabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,222 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for capable, with forms such as "acpable", "caapble", and "capabble". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "cavale", "capsule", "coupable", 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 capable, spelled C-A-P-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est en état de faire une chose ; qui a la capacité.
- 2Qui détient le droit ; qui jouit de la capacité légale.
- 3Habile, intelligent.
- 4Qualifiait les choses considérées par rapport à leur capacité intérieure.
- 5Qualifie ce qu’une personne peut faire ou ne pas faire selon ses sentiments, ses possibilités.
- 6Qualifie une personne ou une chose excellente.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acpable,caapble,capabble,capabel,capablle,capalbe,capbale,cappable,ccapable,cpaable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for capable
Misspelling Variants of "capable"
Frequency rank: #1,222 in French
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