facile
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#654
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
facile is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui se fait sans peine. Pronounced \fa.sil\. It ranks #654 in French word frequency. Often confused with file and fail.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | facile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \fa.sil\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #654 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for facile is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fa.sil\. Corpus data places it at rank #654 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for facile, with forms such as "afcile", "faccile", and "faciel". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "file", "fail", "faire", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is facile, spelled F-A-C-I-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui se fait sans peine.
- 2Qui est aisé à faire.
- 3Qui ne présente pas de difficultés.
- 4Qui est aisé à aborder et à converser.
- 5Qualifie un travail qui coûte peu, qui se fait vite et bien.
- 6Qui ne sent pas la gêne, qui paraît fait sans peine, sans effort.
- 7Qui exécute sans peine.
- 8Dont on voit qu'aucun effort ne fut fait pour le faire.
- 9Qui se plie sans peine aux circonstances, qui se prête aisément à ce que l’on attend de lui.
- 10Dont on peut faire tout ce qu’on veut.
- 11Qualifiait une femme, une jeune fille, qui se laissait séduire aisément.
- 12Peu sévère, peu contraignant, relâché, en parlant des choses.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afcile,faccile,faciel,facille,faclie,faicle,fcaile,ffacile
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for facile
Misspelling Variants of "facile"
Frequency rank: #654 in French
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