explicable
\ɛk.spli.kabl\
The verdict
“explicable” is uncommon French (frequency #53,340 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,340
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui peut être expliqué.
Corpus desk
Index FR-explicable · explicable · French
explicable · rank #53,340 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,340
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exhumer
Nearest frequency peer: exhumer (-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 “explicable”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- eurosceptiq…
eurosceptique
46,665 corpus weight
- excédentair…
excédentaires
46,663 corpus weight
- exhumer
exhumer
46,662 corpus weight
- explicable
explicable
46,661 corpus weight
- exprima
exprima
46,660 corpus weight
- falcone
falcone
46,656 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “explicable” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | explicable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛk.spli.kabl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #53,340 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “explicable” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
explicable is uncommon French at frequency #53,340 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛk.spli.kabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui peut être expliqué.".
Zero misspellings are on record for explicable in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 explicable, spelled E-X-P-L-I-C-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui peut être expliqué.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how explicable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce passage est explicable.
Cet accident n’est pas explicable.
This word in other languages
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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