facilité

/\fa.si.li.te\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,038

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

12

similar word pairs

facilité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Qualité de ce qui est fait ou employé sans peine. Pronounced \fa.si.li.te\. It ranks #5,038 in French word frequency. Often confused with faculté and faillite.

Key facts for facilité
PropertyValue
Headwordfacilité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fa.si.li.te\
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,038
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of facilité in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for facilité is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fa.si.li.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,038 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for facilité, with forms such as "afcilité", "faccilité", and "faciilté". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "faculté", "faillite", "fatalité", 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 facilité, spelled F-A-C-I-L-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qualité de ce qui est fait ou employé sans peine.
  2. 2
    Moyen qui permet d’exécuter sans peine.
  3. 3
    , Commodités, délais accordés à un acheteur, à un débiteur.
  4. 4
    Disposition naturelle ou acquise, grâce à laquelle on exécute quelque chose sans peine, sans effort.
  5. 5
    Aptitude à concevoir, à produire, à travailler facilement.
  6. 6
    Manière dont on exécute une chose sans peine.
  7. 7
    Tendance à se plier aux circonstances, à se prêter à ce que l’on attend de vous.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: afcilité,faccilité,faciilté,facilite,facilitté,faciliét,facillité,faciltié,facliité,faiclité,fcailité,ffacilité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for facilité

Misspelling Variants of "facilité"

afcilité8faccilité9faciilté8facilite8facilitté9faciliét8facillité9faciltié8
Misspelling Variants of "facilité"

Frequency rank: #5,038 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "facilité"?
"facilité" is spelled F-A-C-I-L-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \fa.si.li.te\.
What does "facilité" mean?
As a noun, "facilité" means: Qualité de ce qui est fait ou employé sans peine.
What words are commonly confused with "facilité"?
"facilité" is commonly confused with "faculté", "faillite", "fatalité". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "facilité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "facilité" is \fa.si.li.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "facilité" come from?
"facilité" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.