constable

\kɔ̃s.tabl\

/\kɔ̃s.tabl\/ noun

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The verdict

“constable” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,393. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#44,393
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Titre d’officiers de police au Royaume-Uni, aux États-Unis, au Canada (Québec inclus), en Australie, en Nouvelle-Zélande et en Afrique du Sud.

Corpus desk

Index FR-constable · constable · French

constable · rank #44,393 · 14 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #44,393
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH consacrera

Nearest frequency peer: consacrera (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « constable »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « constable » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

constable vs constate
78% similar
constable vs constante
78% similar
constable vs constance
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for constable
PropertyValue
Headwordconstable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɔ̃s.tabl\
Letters9
Frequency rank#44,393
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « constable »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.constablese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « consacrera » (#44,392), « construisait » (#44,394), « conquiert » (#44,391). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « constable » est au #44,393. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around constable (IPA \kɔ̃s.tabl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,393 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for constable, with forms such as "cconstable", "cnostable", and "connstable". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "constate", "constante", "constance", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 constable, spelled C-O-N-S-T-A-B-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Titre d’officiers de police au Royaume-Uni, aux États-Unis, au Canada (Québec inclus), en Australie, en Nouvelle-Zélande et en Afrique du Sud.
  2. 2
    Maître-canonnier de la marine impériale allemande.
  3. 3
    Artilleur de l’armée impériale autrichienne.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Donc, si vous voyez Mackie-le-Surineur dans les jours qui viennent, courez le dénoncer au premier constable que vous rencontrerez.
  2. "Les armes ont toutes été saisies, car elles n’étaient pas entreposées en sécurité", a expliqué la constable Tania Visintin du service de police de Vancouver dans un communiqué.

This word in other languages

constable(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cconstable
  • cnostable
  • connstable
  • consatble
  • consstable
  • constabble
  • constabel
  • constablle
  • constalbe
  • constbale
  • consttable
  • contsable
  • cosntable
  • ocnstable

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of constable - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

cconstable1cnostable2connstable1consatble2consstable1constabble1constabel2constablle1
Edit distance from "constable"

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 "constable"?
"constable" is spelled C-O-N-S-T-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃s.tabl\.
What does "constable" mean?
As a noun, "constable" means: Titre d’officiers de police au Royaume-Uni, aux États-Unis, au Canada (Québec inclus), en Australie, en Nouvelle-Zélande et en Afrique du Sud.
What words are commonly confused with "constable"?
"constable" is commonly confused with "constate", "constante", "constance". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "constable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "constable" is \kɔ̃s.tabl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "constable" come from?
"constable" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

conquiert#44,391confisque#44,388couchette#44,399courtoise#44,400

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

coquelicot14 variantsconduisais14 variantscitrouilles14 variantschâtaigne14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list