faillible
\fa.jibl\
The verdict
“faillible” is uncommon French (frequency #73,157 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,157
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est sujet à faillir, à se tromper ou à commettre une faute.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faillible · faillible · French
faillible · rank #73,157 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,157
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fafs
Nearest frequency peer: fafs (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « faillible »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Fabert
Fabert
26,847 corpus weight
- facility
facility
26,846 corpus weight
- fafs
fafs
26,845 corpus weight
- faillible
faillible
26,844 corpus weight
- failure
failure
26,843 corpus weight
- fain
fain
26,842 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « faillible » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faillible |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fa.jibl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faillible » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faillible is uncommon French at frequency #73,157 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fa.jibl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est sujet à faillir, à se tromper ou à commettre une faute.".
No misspelling variants are generated for faillible in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is faillible, spelled F-A-I-L-L-I-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est sujet à faillir, à se tromper ou à commettre une faute.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faillible appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Me rendre compte que des hommes d’Église pouvaient se tromper sur des questions spirituelles a été une expérience pénible, comparable à celle de l’enfant qui s’aperçoit tout à coup que ses parents, ces dieux sur terre, son faillibles.
Le cas de la société tibétaine d’avant 1950 illustre de façon tragique les lacunes d’une idéologie dogmatique bouddhiste gérée par de faillibles humains. Elle a conduit à une société féodale esclavagiste basée sur l’oppression de presque toute la population par les hiérarchies religieuse et aristocratique.
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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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