faiblesse
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faiblesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛ.blɛs\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,577 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1État de ce qui est faible.
- 2Manque de force ou de vigueur.
- 3Manque d’intelligence.
- 4Défaillance ; évanouissement ; syncope.
- 5Manque de puissance ou de ressources.
- 6Manque de talent.
- 7Manque de force morale qui dispose à trop d’indulgence, ou qui rend facile à troubler, à émouvoir.
- 8Défaut de raison, d’empire sur soi-même, et des fautes qui en sont la suite.
- 9Le fait de succomber à la séduction, en parlant d’une femme.
- 10Manque de grosseur, d’épaisseur, de force, de solidité de certaines choses.
- 11Le fait pour une chose d'être peu considérable en son genre.
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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"
Frequency rank: #4,577 in French
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