sablières

\sa.bli.jɛʁ\

/\sa.bli.jɛʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“sablières” is uncommon French (frequency #82,443 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#82,443
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sablière.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sablieres · sablières · French

sablières · rank #82,443 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #82,443
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sacralité

Nearest frequency peer: sacralité (+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 « sablières »

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 « sablières » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for sablières
PropertyValue
Headwordsablières
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sa.bli.jɛʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#82,443
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « sablières » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).sablièrestombe 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: « sacralité » (#82,444), « répudiée » (#82,441), « saisines » (#82,445). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sablières » est au #82,443. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sablières is uncommon French at frequency #82,443 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sa.bli.jɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de sablière.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sablières, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sablières, spelled S-A-B-L-I-È-R-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de sablière.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Sur les sablières I posées sur les jouées (voir la face postérieure C), venaient s’embréver les madriers formant chevrons et recevant les lambris intérieurs de manière à dégager le jour dormant K, les châssis rectangulaires étant seuls ouvrants.

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 "sablières"?
"sablières" is spelled S-A-B-L-I-È-R-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.bli.jɛʁ\.
What does "sablières" mean?
As a noun, "sablières" means: Pluriel de sablière.
How do you pronounce "sablières"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sablières" is \sa.bli.jɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sablières" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list