symbole
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,107
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
symbole is aFrenchnoun. It means: Figure ou image qui sert à désigner une chose le plus souvent abstraite, une idée ou un concept. Pronounced \sɛ̃.bɔl\. It ranks #3,107 in French word frequency. Often confused with symboles and symbolisé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | symbole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.bɔl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,107 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for symbole is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛ̃.bɔl\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,107 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for symbole, with forms such as "smybole", "ssymbole", and "sybmole". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "symboles", "symbolisé", "semble", 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 symbole, spelled S-Y-M-B-O-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Figure ou image qui sert à désigner une chose le plus souvent abstraite, une idée ou un concept.
- 2Figure qu’on voit sur les médailles et qui sert à désigner soit des hommes ou des divinités, soit des parties du monde, des royaumes, des provinces ou des villes.
- 3Lettre ou ensemble de lettres, qui sert à désigner un corps simple.
- 4Formulaire qui contient les principaux articles de la foi.
- 5Figuration graphique, colorée et/ou alphanumérique, affectée à un phénomène pour le représenter sur la carte.
- 6Outil d'humiliation publique de la politique linguistique d'État afin de forcer les élèves à parler la langue d’enseignement. Sous la forme d'un objet à porter autour du cou, il est spécifiquement utilisé dans les écoles primaires francophones aux XIXe et XXe siècles pour interdire l'usage des langues maternelles régionales.
- 7Signe lié à un objet par un lien purement conventionnel et arbitraire.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: smybole,ssymbole,sybmole,symbbole,symbloe,symboel,symbolle,symmbole,symoble,syymbole,ysmbole
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for symbole
Misspelling Variants of "symbole"
Frequency rank: #3,107 in French
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