navigable

\na.vi.ɡabl\

/\na.vi.ɡabl\/ adj

The verdict

“navigable” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,213. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#34,213
frequency rank, French
1,563
“N” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Où l’on peut naviguer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-navigable · navigable · French

navigable · rank #34,213 · 13 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #34,213
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,563
  • PHOTO-FINISH Nakamura

Nearest frequency peer: Nakamura (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « navigable »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « navigable » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

navigable vs navigables
90% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for navigable
PropertyValue
Headwordnavigable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\na.vi.ɡabl\
Letters9
Frequency rank#34,213
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « navigable »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).navigablese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Nakamura » (#34,212), « Nagano » (#34,211), « nommément » (#34,215). Parmi 1,563 lemmes en « N », « navigable » est au #34,213. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around navigable (IPA \na.vi.ɡabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #34,213 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Où l’on peut naviguer.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for navigable, with forms such as "anvigable", "naivgable", and "navgiable". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "navigables", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 navigable, spelled N-A-V-I-G-A-B-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Où l’on peut naviguer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how navigable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il est d'ailleurs impossible de compter pendant les sécheresses sur la totalité du produit alimentaire parce que les riverains de la Bar profitant de ce qu'elle n'est pas considérée comme rivière navigable en amont de la prise d'eau y font de nombreuses saignées pour l'irrigation de leurs prairies ; […].
  2. D'après la chute très-considérable de la Sée dans la commune de Brouains, où les moulins sont entassés en grand nombre dans un court espace, on ne peut pas songer à rendre la Sée navigable plus haut que Chérencé-le-Roussel.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • anvigable
  • naivgable
  • navgiable
  • naviagble
  • navigabble
  • navigabel
  • navigablle
  • navigalbe
  • navigbale
  • naviggable
  • navvigable
  • nnavigable
  • nvaigable

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of navigable - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

anvigable2naivgable2navgiable2naviagble2navigabble1navigabel2navigablle1navigalbe2
Edit distance from "navigable"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "navigable"?
"navigable" is spelled N-A-V-I-G-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \na.vi.ɡabl\.
What does "navigable" mean?
As an adjective, "navigable" means: Où l’on peut naviguer.
What words are commonly confused with "navigable"?
"navigable" is commonly confused with "navigables". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "navigable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "navigable" is \na.vi.ɡabl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "navigable" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "navigable", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list