gable

Other forms of gable

plural

gables·

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 gable

What does gable mean?

gable means "the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gable?

gable has 2 syllables: ga-ble. The stress falls on "ga". In IPA it is /ˈɡeɪbəl/.

What is another word for gable?

Close synonyms include gable end, gable wall, Clark Gable, William Clark Gable. 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 gable a common word?

gable is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.