débile
\de.bil\
The verdict
“débile” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,550. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,550
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faible, qui manque de forces, de vigueur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-debile · débile · French
débile · rank #5,550 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,550
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH douleurs
Nearest frequency peer: douleurs (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « débile »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dispute
dispute
94,454 corpus weight
- disques
disques
94,453 corpus weight
- douleurs
douleurs
94,452 corpus weight
- débile
débile
94,451 corpus weight
- délais
délais
94,450 corpus weight
- détention
détention
94,449 corpus weight
What this shows « débile » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | débile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.bil\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « débile »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around débile (IPA \de.bil\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,550 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for débile, with forms such as "dbéile", "ddébile", and "debile". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "deuil", "demie", "défie", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is débile, spelled D-É-B-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Faible, qui manque de forces, de vigueur.
- 2Qui est atteint dans sa raison.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how débile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On a les jambes débiles après de longues maladies. Un estomac débile doit observer un grand régime.
Toute débile que j'étais, dit-elle, ou, pour dire la vérité, demi-morte, je montai à cheval pour aller avec mon mari rejoindre l'armée […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dbéile
- ddébile
- debile
- débbile
- débiel
- débille
- déblie
- déible
- édbile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of débile - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).