noyable

\nwa.jabl\

/\nwa.jabl\/ adj

The verdict

“noyable” 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) - Qui peut être noyé

Corpus desk

Index FR-noyable · noyable · French

noyable · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "N" 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.

Key facts for noyable
PropertyValue
Headwordnoyable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\nwa.jabl\
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « noyable » en français

noyablereste hors des 100.000 mots français les plus fréquents, dans la longue queue du vocabulaire technique, archaïque ou rare, là où le doute d'orthographe frappe.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

noyable is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \nwa.jabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for noyable, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is noyable, spelled N-O-Y-A-B-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui peut être noyé
  2. 2
    Inondable.
  3. 3
    Qui perd son individualité et se perd dans la masse.
  4. 4
    Se dit d’un capteur de proximité inductif lorsqu’il peut être placé de manière affleurante sans perturber son signal.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La plaine de Suzany étant composée en partie de terres sableuses, en partie d'autres terres noyables par les inondations de la Marne en hiver, il est présumable que pour ces deux cas particuliers l'emploi des engrais en couverture au printemps serait une bonne appréciation.
  2. Charles de Valois, comte d'Anjou et du Maine, accorde aux bourgeois d'Angers d'aller à la chasse […], à la charge, par ceux qui avaient des vignes, de lui payer une redevance annuelle de seize deniers, qui n'était que de douze pour ceux qui n'avaient que des prés hauts, non noyables. (Dom Roger, Anjou, 291.) 6

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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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "noyable"?
"noyable" is spelled N-O-Y-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \nwa.jabl\.
What does "noyable" mean?
As an adjective, "noyable" means: Qui peut être noyé
How do you pronounce "noyable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "noyable" is \nwa.jabl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "noyable" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list