responsables

\ʁɛs.pɔ̃.sabl\

/\ʁɛs.pɔ̃.sabl\/ adj

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The verdict

“responsables” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,447. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,447
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
19
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de responsable.

Corpus desk

Index FR-responsables · responsables · French

responsables · rank #2,447 · 19 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,447
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 19 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH représentants

Nearest frequency peer: représentants (-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 « responsables »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « responsables » 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).

responsables vs responsable
92% similar

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

Key facts for responsables
PropertyValue
Headwordresponsables
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ʁɛs.pɔ̃.sabl\
Letters12
Frequency rank#2,447
Misspellings tracked19
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « responsables »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.responsablesse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « représentants » (#2,446), « retirer » (#2,448), « quartiers » (#2,445). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « responsables » est au #2,447. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 19 spelling variants around responsables (IPA \ʁɛs.pɔ̃.sabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,447 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de responsable.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for responsables, with forms such as "ersponsables", "repsonsables", and "resopnsables". 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, "responsable", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is responsables, spelled R-E-S-P-O-N-S-A-B-L-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de responsable.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Celui-ci ne doit plus être seulement « celui qui va devant », il doit aussi être un formateur dont le rôle est de « désassister » progressivement ceux qui lui sont confiés et de les rendre autonomes et responsables.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ersponsables
  • repsonsables
  • resopnsables
  • respnosables
  • responasbles
  • responnsables
  • responsabbles
  • responsabels
  • responsabless
  • responsablles
  • responsablse
  • responsalbes
  • responsbales
  • responssables
  • resposnables
  • respponsables
  • ressponsables
  • rresponsables
  • rseponsables

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of responsables - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ersponsables2repsonsables2resopnsables2respnosables2responasbles2responnsables1responsabbles1responsabels2
Edit distance from "responsables"

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 "responsables"?
"responsables" is spelled R-E-S-P-O-N-S-A-B-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɛs.pɔ̃.sabl\.
What does "responsables" mean?
As an adjective, "responsables" means: Pluriel de responsable.
What words are commonly confused with "responsables"?
"responsables" is commonly confused with "responsable". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "responsables"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "responsables" 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 "responsables" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).

essentiellement19 variantsentraînement19 variantsmanifestation19 variantsscientifiques19 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list