fable
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,129
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
fable is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce que l’on dit, ce que l’on raconte. Pronounced \fabl\. Often confused with fle and face.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fabl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,129 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fable is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,129 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for fable, with forms such as "afble", "fabble", and "fabel". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fle", "face", "file", 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 fable, spelled F-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce que l’on dit, ce que l’on raconte.
- 2Sujet de malins récits.
- 3Récit imaginaire, c’est-à-dire d’imagination.
- 4Fausseté ; mensonge ; chose controuvée.
- 5Récit ayant un caractère mythologique quelconque.
- 6Récit relatif aux divinités du paganisme.
- 7Les fables du paganisme, de l’antiquité païenne : Se prend, dans un sens collectif, pour toutes les fables de l’antiquité païenne.
- 8En poésie épique et dramatique, la suite des faits qui forment une pièce, en tant qu’elle est un travail d’imagination. Sujet d’un poème épique, d’un poème dramatique, d’un roman.
- 9Apologue, récit en prose ou en vers dans lequel on exprime une vérité, une moralité sous le voile de quelque fiction. Petit récit qui cache une moralité sous le voile d’une fiction et dans lequel d’ordinaire les animaux sont les personnages.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afble,fabble,fabel,fablle,falbe,fbale,ffable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fable
Misspelling Variants of "fable"
Frequency rank: #16,129 in French
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