vocable

/\vɔ.kabl\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#24,076

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

vocable is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mot, terme considéré comme porteur d’une signification particulière. Pronounced \vɔ.kabl\. Often confused with vocal and vocale.

Key facts for vocable
PropertyValue
Headwordvocable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vɔ.kabl\
Letters7
Frequency rank#24,076
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for vocable is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɔ.kabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #24,076 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for vocable, with forms such as "ovcable", "vcoable", and "voacble". 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, "vocal", "vocale", "vocales", 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 vocable, spelled V-O-C-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mot, terme considéré comme porteur d’une signification particulière.
  2. 2
    Appellation d’une église du nom du saint auquel elle est dédiée.
  3. 3
    Indique une unité concrète extraite d’un discours, dont l’occurrence et la mise en relation avec d’autres vocables conduit, par un processus de lexicalisation, à l’unité abstraite de lexème.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ovcable,vcoable,voacble,vocabble,vocabel,vocablle,vocalbe,vocbale,voccable,vvocable

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vocable

Misspelling Variants of "vocable"

ovcable7vcoable7voacble7vocabble8vocabel7vocablle8vocalbe7vocbale7
Misspelling Variants of "vocable"

Frequency rank: #24,076 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vocable"?
"vocable" is spelled V-O-C-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \vɔ.kabl\.
What does "vocable" mean?
As a noun, "vocable" means: Mot, terme considéré comme porteur d’une signification particulière.
What words are commonly confused with "vocable"?
"vocable" is commonly confused with "vocal", "vocale", "vocales". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "vocable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vocable" is \vɔ.kabl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vocable" come from?
"vocable" 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.