facilité
\fa.si.li.te\
The verdict
“facilité” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,038. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,038
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est fait ou employé sans peine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-facilite · facilité · French
facilité · rank #5,038 · 12 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,038
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH extérieure
Nearest frequency peer: extérieure (-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 « facilité »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- espérons
espérons
94,966 corpus weight
- expansion
expansion
94,965 corpus weight
- extérieure
extérieure
94,964 corpus weight
- facilité
facilité
94,963 corpus weight
- finis
finis
94,962 corpus weight
- fiscal
fiscal
94,961 corpus weight
What this shows « facilité » 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 | facilité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.si.li.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « facilité »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around facilité (IPA \fa.si.li.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,038 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for facilité, with forms such as "afcilité", "faccilité", and "faciilté". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "faculté", "faillite", "fatalité", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is facilité, spelled F-A-C-I-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est fait ou employé sans peine.
- 2Moyen qui permet d’exécuter sans peine.
- 3, Commodités, délais accordés à un acheteur, à un débiteur.
- 4Disposition naturelle ou acquise, grâce à laquelle on exécute quelque chose sans peine, sans effort.
- 5Aptitude à concevoir, à produire, à travailler facilement.
- 6Manière dont on exécute une chose sans peine.
- 7Tendance à se plier aux circonstances, à se prêter à ce que l’on attend de vous.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how facilité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La tendreté est la facilité avec laquelle la viande est coupée et broyée au cours de la mastication.
Cela est de la plus grande facilité. - La facilité d’un expédient, d’un moyen. - La facilité d’une méthode.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afcilité
- faccilité
- faciilté
- facilite
- facilitté
- faciliét
- facillité
- faciltié
- facliité
- faiclité
- fcailité
- ffacilité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of facilité - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).