responsable

/\ʁɛs.pɔ̃.sabl\/ adj

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,044

in French word usage

Misspellings

17

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

responsable is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui doit répondre de ses propres actions ou de celles des autres, qui doit être garant de quelque chose. Pronounced \ʁɛs.pɔ̃.sabl\. It ranks #1,044 in French word frequency. Often confused with responsables.

Key facts for responsable
PropertyValue
Headwordresponsable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ʁɛs.pɔ̃.sabl\
Letters11
Frequency rank#1,044
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of responsable in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for responsable is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɛs.pɔ̃.sabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,044 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui doit répondre de ses propres actions ou de celles des autres, qui doit être garant de quelque chose.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for responsable, with forms such as "ersponsable", "repsonsable", and "resopnsable". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "responsables", 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 responsable, spelled R-E-S-P-O-N-S-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui doit répondre de ses propres actions ou de celles des autres, qui doit être garant de quelque chose.

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ersponsable,repsonsable,resopnsable,respnosable,responasble,responnsable,responsabble,responsabel,responsablle,responsalbe,responsbale,responssable,resposnable,respponsable,ressponsable,rresponsable,rseponsable

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for responsable

Misspelling Variants of "responsable"

ersponsable11repsonsable11resopnsable11respnosable11responasble11responnsable12responsabble12responsabel11
Misspelling Variants of "responsable"

Frequency rank: #1,044 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "responsable"?
"responsable" is spelled R-E-S-P-O-N-S-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɛs.pɔ̃.sabl\.
What does "responsable" mean?
As an adj, "responsable" means: Qui doit répondre de ses propres actions ou de celles des autres, qui doit être garant de quelque chose.
What words are commonly confused with "responsable"?
"responsable" is commonly confused with "responsables". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "responsable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "responsable" is \ʁɛs.pɔ̃.sabl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "responsable" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.