faible
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,028
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
faible is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est débile, qui manque de force, de vigueur. Pronounced \fɛbl\. It ranks #1,028 in French word frequency. Often confused with file and fail.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faible |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \fɛbl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,028 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faible is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛbl\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,028 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for faible, with forms such as "afible", "fabile", and "faibble". 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 faible, spelled F-A-I-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est débile, qui manque de force, de vigueur.
- 2Qui est débile, qui manque de force, de vigueur.
- 3Qui manque de force morale, qui est trop indulgent, trop facile, sans fermeté.
- 4Qui manque de puissance, de ressources, etc.
- 5Qui n’a pas assez de grosseur, d’épaisseur, de force, de solidité, etc., en parlant des choses.
- 6Qui est peu fortifié.
- 7Qui est peu considérable en son genre sous le rapport de la quantité, de l’étendue, de la valeur, de l’intensité, de l’énergie, etc.
- 8Il s’emploie souvent avec les prépositions de ou en suivies d’un nom qui caractérise le genre de faiblesse.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afible,fabile,faibble,faibel,faiblle,failbe,ffaible
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for faible
Misspelling Variants of "faible"
Frequency rank: #1,028 in French
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Nearby French words
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