fabuleux
\fa.by.lø\
The verdict
“fabuleux” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,658. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,658
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la fable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fabuleux · fabuleux · French
fabuleux · rank #9,658 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #9,658
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fabrice
Nearest frequency peer: Fabrice (-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 « fabuleux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- exposée
exposée
90,346 corpus weight
- F1
F1
90,345 corpus weight
- Fabrice
Fabrice
90,344 corpus weight
- fabuleux
fabuleux
90,343 corpus weight
- fermement
fermement
90,342 corpus weight
- fermées
fermées
90,341 corpus weight
What this shows « fabuleux » 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 | fabuleux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fa.by.lø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,658 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fabuleux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around fabuleux (IPA \fa.by.lø\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,658 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for fabuleux, with forms such as "afbuleux", "fabbuleux", and "fablueux". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "fabuleuse", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is fabuleux, spelled F-A-B-U-L-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la fable.
- 2Qui a le caractère d’une fable.
- 3Grandiose, incroyable, bien que réel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fabuleux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les divinités fabuleuses.
Les temps fabuleux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afbuleux
- fabbuleux
- fablueux
- fabuelux
- fabuleuxx
- fabulexu
- fabulleux
- fabuluex
- faubleux
- fbauleux
- ffabuleux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fabuleux - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fabuleux", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).