symbole

/\sɛ̃.bɔl\/ noun

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.

Key facts for symbole
PropertyValue
Headwordsymbole
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɛ̃.bɔl\
Letters7
Frequency rank#3,107
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of symbole in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Figure ou image qui sert à désigner une chose le plus souvent abstraite, une idée ou un concept.
  2. 2
    Figure 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.
  3. 3
    Lettre ou ensemble de lettres, qui sert à désigner un corps simple.
  4. 4
    Formulaire qui contient les principaux articles de la foi.
  5. 5
    Figuration graphique, colorée et/ou alphanumérique, affectée à un phénomène pour le représenter sur la carte.
  6. 6
    Outil 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.
  7. 7
    Signe lié à un objet par un lien purement conventionnel et arbitraire.

Synonyms

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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"

smybole7ssymbole8sybmole7symbbole8symbloe7symboel7symbolle8symmbole8
Misspelling Variants of "symbole"

Frequency rank: #3,107 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "symbole"?
"symbole" is spelled S-Y-M-B-O-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛ̃.bɔl\.
What does "symbole" mean?
As a noun, "symbole" means: Figure ou image qui sert à désigner une chose le plus souvent abstraite, une idée ou un concept.
What words are commonly confused with "symbole"?
"symbole" is commonly confused with "symboles", "symbolisé", "semble". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "symbole"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "symbole" is \sɛ̃.bɔl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "symbole" come from?
"symbole" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.