fable

Other forms of fable

plural

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Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fable

What does fable mean?

fable means "a deliberately false or improbable account". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fable?

fable has 2 syllables: fa-ble. The stress falls on "fa". In IPA it is /ˈfeɪbəl/.

What is another word for fable?

Close synonyms include fabrication, fiction, parable, allegory, apologue. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fable a common word?

fable is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.