mutable
\my.tabl\
The verdict
“mutable” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que l’on peut muter ou permuter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mutable · mutable · French
mutable · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mutable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \my.tabl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mutable » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mutable is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \my.tabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mutable, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is mutable, spelled M-U-T-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Que l’on peut muter ou permuter.
- 2Se dit des types de variable qui peuvent changer pendant l’exécution du programme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mutable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette réévaluation n’est nécessaire que dans la mesure où ce dispositif est mutable dans le cadre du mécanisme de mutation décrit par l’algorithme.
La mutation est au centre de cette version de notre programme : sum est une variable mutable c’est-à-dire qui peut changer tout au long de l’exécution du programme.
Synonyms
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.