fable
French, noun/fabl/
fable is spelled F-A-B-L-E (5 letters) and appears 3.0 times per million words in written French, the 16,088th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fable is a French feminine noun meaning “fable, story” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ce que l’on dit, ce que l’on raconte”.
What does fable mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefable, story
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ce que l’on dit, ce que l’on raconte. 2. Sujet de malins récits. 3. Récit imaginaire, c’est-à-dire d’imagination. 4. Fausseté ; mensonge ; chose controuvée.
noun: 1. Récits mythologiques relatifs au polythéisme.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fable
- fables plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fable?
- /fabl/
- /fɑbl/
- \fabl\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fable
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fable in French?
fable appears 3.0 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).