employable

\ɑ̃.plwa.jabl\

/\ɑ̃.plwa.jabl\/ adj

The verdict

“employable” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qu’on peut employer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-employable · employable · French

employable · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "E" 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.

Key facts for employable
PropertyValue
Headwordemployable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ɑ̃.plwa.jabl\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “employable” sits in French frequency

employable falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

employable is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɑ̃.plwa.jabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qu’on peut employer.".

employable has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is employable, spelled E-M-P-L-O-Y-A-B-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qu’on peut employer.

Antonyms

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "employable"?
"employable" is spelled E-M-P-L-O-Y-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.plwa.jabl\.
What does "employable" mean?
As an adjective, "employable" means: Qu’on peut employer.
How do you pronounce "employable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "employable" is \ɑ̃.plwa.jabl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list