semblable
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,813
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
semblable is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est pareil, ressemblant, qui est de même nature, de même qualité, qui a des caractères communs, similaire. Pronounced \sɑ̃.blabl\. It ranks #5,813 in French word frequency. Often confused with semblables.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | semblable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.blabl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,813 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for semblable is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɑ̃.blabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,813 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for semblable, with forms such as "esmblable", "sebmlable", and "sembalble". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "semblables", 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 semblable, spelled S-E-M-B-L-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est pareil, ressemblant, qui est de même nature, de même qualité, qui a des caractères communs, similaire.
- 2Qualifie deux ou plusieurs figures géométriques qui ont leurs angles égaux, chacun à chacun, et dans lesquelles, en outre, les côtés qui comprennent ces angles sont proportionnels.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esmblable,sebmlable,sembalble,sembblable,semblabble,semblabel,semblablle,semblalbe,semblbale,sembllable,semlbable,semmblable,smeblable,ssemblable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for semblable
Misspelling Variants of "semblable"
Frequency rank: #5,813 in French
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