sablière

\sa.bli.jɛʁ\

/\sa.bli.jɛʁ\/ adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sablière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for sablière
PropertyValue
Headwordsablière
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\sa.bli.jɛʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#60,361
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « sablière » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).sablièretombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Salinger » (#60,362), « réussirait » (#60,359), « salute » (#60,363). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sablière » est au #60,361. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Se dit d’une poutre utilisée horizontalement à la base d’une construction.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sablière"?
"sablière" is spelled S-A-B-L-I-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.bli.jɛʁ\.
What does "sablière" mean?
As an adjective, "sablière" means: Se dit d’une poutre utilisée horizontalement à la base d’une construction.
How do you pronounce "sablière"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sablière" is \sa.bli.jɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list