disable
\di.zabl\
The verdict
“disable” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui peut se dire ; exprimable ^([1]).
Corpus desk
Index FR-disable · disable · French
disable · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" 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 | disable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \di.zabl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
disable is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \di.zabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for disable, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is disable, spelled D-I-S-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui peut se dire ; exprimable ^([1]).
- 2(Dans l’expression n’être pas disable) Être indescriptible, excessif, inracontable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how disable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Est-ce possible, est-ce disable? Qu’importe ici tout se met, tout se dit.
INDICIBLE, L. in-dicibilis. Pourquoi pas indisable, puisque l’on dit disable et non pas dicible ? Pourquoi latin pour l’un et français pour l’autre ?
Synonyms
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.