sablière
\sa.bli.jɛʁ\
The verdict
“sablière” is uncommon French (frequency #60,361 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,361
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dit d’une poutre utilisée horizontalement à la base d’une construction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sabliere · sablière · French
sablière · rank #60,361 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,361
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Salinger
Nearest frequency peer: Salinger (+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 « sablière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rétraction
rétraction
39,643 corpus weight
- réussirait
réussirait
39,642 corpus weight
- sablière
sablière
39,640 corpus weight
- Salinger
Salinger
39,639 corpus weight
- salute
salute
39,638 corpus weight
- saquer
saquer
39,637 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sablière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sablière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sa.bli.jɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sablière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sablière is uncommon French at frequency #60,361 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sa.bli.jɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se dit d’une poutre utilisée horizontalement à la base d’une construction.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sablière, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is sablière, spelled S-A-B-L-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Se dit d’une poutre utilisée horizontalement à la base d’une construction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sablière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous avons remonté des meules hydrauliques, des blocs de pierre et un élément déterminant pour la compréhension du lieu, une poutre sablière en chêne. La datation au carbone 14 établissait une fourchette large de 355 ans avant JC à deux siècles après.
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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