palpable
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,961
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
palpable is anFrenchadj. It means: Qu’on peut palper, qui se fait sentir au toucher. Pronounced \pal.pabl\. Often confused with papale and payable.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palpable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \pal.pabl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,961 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for palpable is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pal.pabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,961 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for palpable, with forms such as "aplpable", "palapble", and "pallpable". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "papale", "payable", "passable", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is palpable, spelled P-A-L-P-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qu’on peut palper, qui se fait sentir au toucher.
- 2Qui est clair, dont on peut se rendre compte, dont on touche du doigt la réalité.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aplpable,palapble,pallpable,palpabble,palpabel,palpablle,palpalbe,palpbale,palppable,paplable,plapable,ppalpable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for palpable
Misspelling Variants of "palpable"
Frequency rank: #22,961 in French
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