stable
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,189
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
stable is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui reste en place, dans une situation ferme. Qui ne varie pas. Pronounced \stabl\. It ranks #4,189 in French word frequency. Often confused with style and stade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \stabl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for stable is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \stabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,189 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for stable, with forms such as "satble", "sstable", and "stabble". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "style", "stade", "stage", and more, 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 stable, spelled S-T-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 reste en place, dans une situation ferme. Qui ne varie pas.
- 2Qui reste en place, dans une situation ferme. Qui ne varie pas.
- 3Qui reste en place, dans une situation ferme. Qui ne varie pas.
- 4Sur qui, sur quoi, on peut compter, s’appuyer.
- 5Sur qui, sur quoi, on peut compter, s’appuyer.
- 6Sur qui, sur quoi, on peut compter, s’appuyer.
- 7Qualifie un sous-graphe dont aucun sommet n'est adjacent.
- 8Se dit d'une partie P d'un ensemble relativement à une application si tous les transformés des éléments de P via l'application se trouvent dans P.
- 9Version d'un logiciel dont on estime qu'elle a été suffisamment testée et corrigée pour être commercialisée ou utilisable sans risque majeur par des personnes non expérimentées.
- 10Qualifie un peuplement sans vulnérabilité particulière face aux intempéries, notamment aux vents forts.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: satble,sstable,stabble,stabel,stablle,stalbe,stbale,sttable,tsable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "stable"
Frequency rank: #4,189 in French
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