faible d’esprit
\fɛbl d‿ɛs.pʁi\
The verdict
“faible d’esprit” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne ayant un léger handicap mental.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faible-d-esprit · faible d’esprit · French
faible d’esprit · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faible d’esprit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛbl d‿ɛs.pʁi\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
faible d’esprit is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɛbl d‿ɛs.pʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne ayant un léger handicap mental.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for faible d’esprit, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is faible d’esprit, spelled F-A-I-B-L-E- -D-’-E-S-P-R-I-T.
Definition
- 1Personne ayant un léger handicap mental.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faible d’esprit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Heureux les faibles d’esprit, car le royaume des cieux est à eux.
Il y a dans l’ascendance de Monsieur d’A. l’habituel oncle faible d’esprit et l’oncle à la mode de Bretagne aliéné ; peu de familles n’ont pas un fou analogue au fond de leurs secrètes archives.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.