controversable
\kɔ̃.tʁɔ.vɛʁ.sabl\
The verdict
“controversable” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est susceptible de controverse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-controversable · controversable · French
controversable · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | controversable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁɔ.vɛʁ.sabl\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
controversable is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁɔ.vɛʁ.sabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est susceptible de controverse.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for controversable, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 controversable, spelled C-O-N-T-R-O-V-E-R-S-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est susceptible de controverse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how controversable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. le Ministre de l'intérieur ne peut pas consentir à laisser dénaturer ses paroles. Il n'a pas déclaré la question controversable en elle-même. Il a dit que c'était une question controversable et controversée en Allemagne, […].
Ainsi échapperons-nous aux questions d'interprétation toujours irritantes et controversables.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.