sable
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,291
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sable is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sédiment clastique formé de grains de taille comprise entre 62,5 μm et 2 mm. Cette roche meuble pouvant être de type détritique (issue de la désagrégation d’autres roches par érosion) ou bien être ... Pronounced \sabl\. It ranks #3,291 in French word frequency. Often confused with sal and sage.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sabl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,291 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sable is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,291 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for sable, with forms such as "asble", "sabble", and "sabel". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sal", "sage", "salé", and more, 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 sable, spelled 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
- 1Sédiment clastique formé de grains de taille comprise entre 62,5 μm et 2 mm. Cette roche meuble pouvant être de type détritique (issue de la désagrégation d’autres roches par érosion) ou bien être issue du dépôt in situ d’éventuelles parties carbonatées de minuscules organismes marins.
- 2Sol sableux d’une région.
- 3Sol sableux d’une région.
- 4Mélange de cette substance et de diverses matières qui sert à faire des moules de fonderie.
- 5Calcul urinaire, gravelle fine comme du sable.
- 6Sablier.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asble,sabble,sabel,sablle,salbe,sbale,ssable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sable
Misspelling Variants of "sable"
Frequency rank: #3,291 in French
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