sablière
\sa.bli.jɛʁ\
The verdict
“sablière” is uncommon French (frequency #60,361 among 394,209 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,361
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Se dit d’une poutre utilisée horizontalement à la base d’une construction.
| 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) |
Where “sablière” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sablière is uncommon French at frequency #60,361 among 394,209 “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.
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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Using “sablière”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-A-B-L-I-È-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.