sablier
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,713
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
sablier is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit instrument composé de deux récipients de verre ajustés de manière que le sable fin qui est dans l’une s’écoule peu à peu dans l’autre par une petite ouverture. Pronounced \sa.bli.je\. Often confused with salir and saluer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sablier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sa.bli.je\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #35,713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sablier is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.bli.je\. Corpus data places it at rank #35,713 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for sablier, with forms such as "asblier", "sabblier", and "sabiler". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "salir", "saluer", "saboter", 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 sablier, spelled S-A-B-L-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit instrument composé de deux récipients de verre ajustés de manière que le sable fin qui est dans l’une s’écoule peu à peu dans l’autre par une petite ouverture.
- 2Temps durant lequel s’écoule le sable dans ce dernier.
- 3Petit récipient contenant du sable fin destiné à être répandu sur l’écriture pour la sécher.
- 4Petit arbre d’Amérique, dont le fruit, qui est une capsule dure et très sèche, peut s’employer en guise de récipient pour mettre du sable pour sécher l’écriture.
- 5Icône représentant un sablier sur le curseur et indiquant qu’une tâche est en attente.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asblier,sabblier,sabiler,sableir,sablierr,sablire,sabllier,salbier,sbalier,ssablier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sablier
Misspelling Variants of "sablier"
Frequency rank: #35,713 in French
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