faillis
\fa.ji\
The verdict
“faillis” is uncommon French (frequency #54,579 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,579
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de failli.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faillis · faillis · French
faillis · rank #54,579 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,579
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fabulous
Nearest frequency peer: fabulous (-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 « faillis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- externalités
externalités
45,425 corpus weight
- extrapoler
extrapoler
45,424 corpus weight
- fabulous
fabulous
45,423 corpus weight
- faillis
faillis
45,422 corpus weight
- fanfan
fanfan
45,421 corpus weight
- fantoche
fantoche
45,420 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « faillis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faillis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.ji\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,579 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faillis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faillis is uncommon French at frequency #54,579 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fa.ji\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de failli.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for faillis, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is faillis, spelled F-A-I-L-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de failli.
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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