gâble
French, noun/ɡabl/
gâble is spelled G-Â-B-L-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 55,824th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gâble is a French masculine noun meaning “gable (triangular area of wall)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ensemble ornemental triangulaire, qui dans l’architecture gothique, surmonte l’arc d'une baie, l’archivolte…”.
What does gâble mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinegable (triangular area of wall)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de gâble
noun: 1. Ensemble ornemental triangulaire, qui dans l’architecture gothique, surmonte l’arc d'une baie, l’archivolte d’un portail.
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 gâble
- gâbles plural
- gables plural
- gable
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gâble?
- /ɡabl/
- /ɡɑbl/
- \ɡɑbl\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to gâble
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gâble in French?
gâble appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).