contrôlable
\kɔ̃.tʁo.labl\
The verdict
“contrôlable” is uncommon French (frequency #51,976 among 257,141 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,976
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Que l’on peut contrôler, vérifier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-controlable · contrôlable · French
contrôlable · rank #51,976 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,976
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 257,141
- PHOTO-FINISH contrescarpe
Nearest frequency peer: contrescarpe (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “contrôlable”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- confortent
confortent
48,028 corpus weight
- conférenciè…
conférencière
48,027 corpus weight
- contrescarpe
contrescarpe
48,026 corpus weight
- contrôlable
contrôlable
48,025 corpus weight
- coproduit
coproduit
48,023 corpus weight
- coralliens
coralliens
48,022 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “contrôlable” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrôlable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁo.labl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #51,976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “contrôlable” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
contrôlable is uncommon French at frequency #51,976 among 257,141 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁo.labl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for contrôlable, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is contrôlable, spelled C-O-N-T-R-Ô-L-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Que l’on peut contrôler, vérifier.
- 2Que l’on peut contrôler ou dominer.
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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.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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