fâcheux
\fɑ.ʃø\
The verdict
“fâcheux” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,568. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,568
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui donne du déplaisir ou de la peine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-facheux · fâcheux · French
fâcheux · rank #28,568 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,568
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH furet
Nearest frequency peer: furet (-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 « fâcheux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fournissait
fournissait
71,436 corpus weight
- frégates
frégates
71,435 corpus weight
- furet
furet
71,434 corpus weight
- fâcheux
fâcheux
71,433 corpus weight
- gangrène
gangrène
71,432 corpus weight
- garda
garda
71,431 corpus weight
What this shows « fâcheux » 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 | fâcheux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɑ.ʃø\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #28,568 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fâcheux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around fâcheux (IPA \fɑ.ʃø\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,568 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 fâcheux, with forms such as "facheux", "fcâheux", and "ffâcheux". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "fameux", "facteur", "fâche", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fâcheux, spelled F-Â-C-H-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui donne du déplaisir ou de la peine.
- 2Qui occasionne de l'embarras.
- 3Qui importune ; dont la présence dérange.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fâcheux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’observateur rapporte qu'une paysanne ayant vendu des oignons de perce-neige en guise de ciboulette, toutes les personnes qui en mangèrent furent surprises de vomissement, qui n'eurent aucunes suites fâcheuses.
Fâcheux accident. —Fâcheuse nouvelle. — Rencontre fâcheuse, fâcheuse condition.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- facheux
- fcâheux
- ffâcheux
- fâccheux
- fâcehux
- fâcheuxx
- fâchexu
- fâchheux
- fâchuex
- fâhceux
- âfcheux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fâcheux - 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
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