faiblesse

/\fɛ.blɛs\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,577

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

faiblesse is aFrenchnoun. It means: État de ce qui est faible. Pronounced \fɛ.blɛs\. It ranks #4,577 in French word frequency. Often confused with faiblesses and faibles.

Key facts for faiblesse
PropertyValue
Headwordfaiblesse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fɛ.blɛs\
Letters9
Frequency rank#4,577
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of faiblesse in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for faiblesse is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛ.blɛs\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,577 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for faiblesse, with forms such as "afiblesse", "fabilesse", and "faibblesse". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "faiblesses", "faibles", 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 faiblesse, spelled F-A-I-B-L-E-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    État de ce qui est faible.
  2. 2
    Manque de force ou de vigueur.
  3. 3
    Manque d’intelligence.
  4. 4
    Défaillance ; évanouissement ; syncope.
  5. 5
    Manque de puissance ou de ressources.
  6. 6
    Manque de talent.
  7. 7
    Manque de force morale qui dispose à trop d’indulgence, ou qui rend facile à troubler, à émouvoir.
  8. 8
    Défaut de raison, d’empire sur soi-même, et des fautes qui en sont la suite.
  9. 9
    Le fait de succomber à la séduction, en parlant d’une femme.
  10. 10
    Manque de grosseur, d’épaisseur, de force, de solidité de certaines choses.
  11. 11
    Le fait pour une chose d'être peu considérable en son genre.

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: afiblesse,fabilesse,faibblesse,faibelsse,faiblese,faibleses,faibllesse,faiblsese,failbesse,ffaiblesse,fiablesse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for faiblesse

Misspelling Variants of "faiblesse"

afiblesse9fabilesse9faibblesse10faibelsse9faiblese8faibleses9faibllesse10faiblsese9
Misspelling Variants of "faiblesse"

Frequency rank: #4,577 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "faiblesse"?
"faiblesse" is spelled F-A-I-B-L-E-S-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fɛ.blɛs\.
What does "faiblesse" mean?
As a noun, "faiblesse" means: État de ce qui est faible.
What words are commonly confused with "faiblesse"?
"faiblesse" is commonly confused with "faiblesses", "faibles". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "faiblesse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "faiblesse" is \fɛ.blɛs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "faiblesse" come from?
"faiblesse" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.