respirable
\ʁɛs.pi.ʁabl\
The verdict
“respirable” is uncommon French (frequency #61,091 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,091
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qu’on peut respirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-respirable · respirable · French
respirable · rank #61,091 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,091
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH resister
Nearest frequency peer: resister (-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 « respirable »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- repaires
repaires
38,913 corpus weight
- reproductib…
reproductibilité
38,912 corpus weight
- resister
resister
38,911 corpus weight
- respirable
respirable
38,910 corpus weight
- ressac
ressac
38,909 corpus weight
- retirerait
retirerait
38,908 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « respirable » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | respirable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁɛs.pi.ʁabl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #61,091 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « respirable » en français
Rare enough to double-check
respirable is uncommon French at frequency #61,091 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁɛs.pi.ʁabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qu’on peut respirer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for respirable in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is respirable, spelled R-E-S-P-I-R-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qu’on peut respirer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how respirable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cet air n’est pas respirable.
Un gaz respirable.
Antonyms
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); 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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