constable

/\kɔ̃s.tabl\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#44,393

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

8

similar word pairs

constable is aFrenchnoun. It 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. Pronounced \kɔ̃s.tabl\. Often confused with constate and constante.

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)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of constable in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for constable is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃s.tabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #44,393 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for constable, with forms such as "cconstable", "cnostable", and "connstable". 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, "constate", "constante", "constance", 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 constable, spelled C-O-N-S-T-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

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.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cconstable,cnostable,connstable,consatble,consstable,constabble,constabel,constablle,constalbe,constbale,consttable,contsable,cosntable,ocnstable

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for constable

Misspelling Variants of "constable"

cconstable10cnostable9connstable10consatble9consstable10constabble10constabel9constablle10
Misspelling Variants of "constable"

Frequency rank: #44,393 in French

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. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.