transportable

\tʁɑ̃s.pɔʁ.tabl\

/\tʁɑ̃s.pɔʁ.tabl\/ adj

The verdict

“transportable” is uncommon French (frequency #55,655 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,655
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui peut être transporté.

Corpus desk

Index FR-transportable · transportable · French

transportable · rank #55,655 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #55,655
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH transcontinen…

Nearest frequency peer: transcontinental (-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 « transportable »

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for transportable
PropertyValue
Headwordtransportable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\tʁɑ̃s.pɔʁ.tabl\
Letters13
Frequency rank#55,655
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « transportable » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.transportabletombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « transcontinental » (#55,654), « transsexuelle » (#55,656), « transcendante » (#55,653). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « transportable » est au #55,655. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

transportable is uncommon French at frequency #55,655 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tʁɑ̃s.pɔʁ.tabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui peut être transporté.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for transportable, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is transportable, spelled T-R-A-N-S-P-O-R-T-A-B-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui peut être transporté.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Je revenais, à la date indiquée, de le changer contre un petit bulldog de cinq millimètres, plus transportable, et je l'avais posé sur la table. Eugénie le vit et me dit : « Mais, ce n'est pas une arme, ça, c'est un joujou. »
  2. Ce vin ne se conserve pas, n’est guère transportable. Ils le font trop mal, trop négligemment, quand la grappe est trop mûre, avec des tonneaux trop sales, etc.

Synonyms

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 "transportable"?
"transportable" is spelled T-R-A-N-S-P-O-R-T-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁɑ̃s.pɔʁ.tabl\.
What does "transportable" mean?
As an adjective, "transportable" means: Qui peut être transporté.
How do you pronounce "transportable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "transportable" is \tʁɑ̃s.pɔʁ.tabl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list