faiblement
\fɛ.blə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“faiblement” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,361. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,361
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière faible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faiblement · faiblement · French
faiblement · rank #16,361 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,361
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH faciale
Nearest frequency peer: faciale (-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 « faiblement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- expliquerait
expliquerait
83,643 corpus weight
- expérimentés
expérimentés
83,642 corpus weight
- faciale
faciale
83,641 corpus weight
- faiblement
faiblement
83,640 corpus weight
- fascination
fascination
83,639 corpus weight
- fie
fie
83,638 corpus weight
What this shows « faiblement » 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 | faiblement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \fɛ.blə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #16,361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « faiblement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around faiblement (IPA \fɛ.blə.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #16,361 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "D’une manière faible.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for faiblement, with forms such as "afiblement", "fabilement", and "faibblement". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "fatalement", "facilement", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is faiblement, spelled F-A-I-B-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière faible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faiblement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nos malheurs jusqu'ici vous touchent faiblement.
Que le cœur d’une femme est mal connu de vous, Et que vous savez peu ce qu’il veut faire entendre, Lorsque si faiblement on le voit se défendre !
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afiblement
- fabilement
- faibblement
- faibelment
- faibleemnt
- faiblemennt
- faiblementt
- faiblemetn
- faiblemment
- faiblemnet
- faibllement
- faiblmeent
- failbement
- ffaiblement
- fiablement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of faiblement - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).