érable

/\e.ʁabl\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#13,499

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

érable is aFrenchnoun. It means: Genre d’arbre qui croît naturellement dans les régions tempérées à feuilles opposées, pétiolées et palmatilobées, généralement simples, dont le fruit est une disamare formée de 2 samares réunies à ... Pronounced \e.ʁabl\. Often confused with étale and établi.

Key facts for érable
PropertyValue
Headwordérable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\e.ʁabl\
Letters6
Frequency rank#13,499
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for érable is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ʁabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,499 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for érable, with forms such as "erable", "réable", and "éarble". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "étale", "établi", "étable", 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 érable, spelled É-R-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
    Genre d’arbre qui croît naturellement dans les régions tempérées à feuilles opposées, pétiolées et palmatilobées, généralement simples, dont le fruit est une disamare formée de 2 samares réunies à la base, et dont plusieurs espèces fournissent une liqueur qui peut être convertie en sucre par évaporation.
  2. 2
    Bois tiré de cet arbre.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: erable,réable,éarble,érabble,érabel,érablle,éralbe,érbale,érrable

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for érable

Misspelling Variants of "érable"

erable6réable6éarble6érabble7érabel6érablle7éralbe6érbale6
Misspelling Variants of "érable"

Frequency rank: #13,499 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "érable"?
"érable" is spelled É-R-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \e.ʁabl\.
What does "érable" mean?
As a noun, "érable" means: Genre d’arbre qui croît naturellement dans les régions tempérées à feuilles opposées, pétiolées et palmatilobées, généralement simples, dont le fruit est une disamare formée de 2 samares réunies à ...
What words are commonly confused with "érable"?
"érable" is commonly confused with "étale", "établi", "étable". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "érable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "érable" is \e.ʁabl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "érable" come from?
"érable" 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.