faibles
\fɛbl\
The verdict
“faibles” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,257. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,257
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de faible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faibles · faibles · French
faibles · rank #3,257 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,257
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH extraordinaire
Nearest frequency peer: extraordinaire (-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 « faibles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- espérer
espérer
96,747 corpus weight
- existent
existent
96,746 corpus weight
- extraordina…
extraordinaire
96,745 corpus weight
- faibles
faibles
96,744 corpus weight
- financiers
financiers
96,743 corpus weight
- fondé
fondé
96,742 corpus weight
What this shows « faibles » 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 | faibles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɛbl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,257 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « faibles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around faibles (IPA \fɛbl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,257 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de faible.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for faibles, with forms such as "afibles", "fabiles", and "faibbles". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "files", "faites", "filles", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is faibles, spelled F-A-I-B-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de faible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faibles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La scirpaie est répartie sur de faibles surfaces, principalement sur le littoral du Finistère, les étangs palavasiens, la Camargue ainsi que dans les régions d’étangs tels que la Dombes et la Brenne.
On peut en conclure que les perméants hydrophiles utilisés ne donnent pas lieu à une adsorption sensible sur les structures musculaires (auquel cas R aurait une tendance à augmenter dans le domaine des concentrations faibles).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afibles
- fabiles
- faibbles
- faibels
- faibless
- faiblles
- faiblse
- failbes
- ffaibles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of faibles - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).