Which to use
“fabled” is an adjective and “faulted” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #33,228
- “fabled” frequency rank
- #40,692
- “faulted” frequency rank
- 73920
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | fabled | faulted |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Known only in fables; fictitious. | simple past and past participle of fault |
Letter map: fabled vs faulted
Shared letters muted; letters that set fabled and faulted apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. fabled runs 6 letters (CVCCVC) against faulted's 7 (CVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Part-of-speech tell for fabled / faulted
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: fabled is anadjective and faultedaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 73920, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
fabled is recorded at frequency rank #33,228, classified as anadj. faulted is at rank #40,692, tagged as averb.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 73920, this pair ranks #38,009 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of fabled vs faulted
Shared letters: adefl. Private to "fabled": b. Private to "faulted": tu.
"fabled" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC · "faulted" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "fabled" for "faulted" ever safe?
In ordinary English text, does "fabled" or "faulted" show up more?
After this comparison
You've compared "fabled" and "faulted". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "fabled" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "faulted" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #38,009 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "fabled" and "faulted" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "faulted vs fluted". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #38,009 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.