gable
\ɡɑbl\
The verdict
“gable” is uncommon French (frequency #55,983 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,983
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de gâble
Corpus desk
Index FR-gable · gable · French
gable · rank #55,983 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,983
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gabarits
Nearest frequency peer: gabarits (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « gable »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- félicités
félicités
44,021 corpus weight
- fêtard
fêtard
44,020 corpus weight
- gabarits
gabarits
44,019 corpus weight
- gable
gable
44,018 corpus weight
- Ganesh
Ganesh
44,017 corpus weight
- garin
garin
44,016 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gable » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɑbl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,983 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gable » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gable is uncommon French at frequency #55,983 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡɑbl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de gâble".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gable, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gable, spelled G-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de gâble
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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