faillit
\fa.ji\
The verdict
“faillit” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,834. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,834
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de faillir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faillit · faillit · French
faillit · rank #19,834 · 8 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,834
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH expos
Nearest frequency peer: expos (-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 « faillit »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- expatriés
expatriés
80,170 corpus weight
- explosive
explosive
80,169 corpus weight
- expos
expos
80,168 corpus weight
- faillit
faillit
80,167 corpus weight
- farmer
farmer
80,166 corpus weight
- feriez
feriez
80,165 corpus weight
What this shows « faillit » 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 | faillit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fa.ji\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,834 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « faillit »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around faillit (IPA \fa.ji\), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,834 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for faillit, with forms such as "afillit", "faililt", and "failit". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "fallut", "filait", "faisait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is faillit, spelled F-A-I-L-L-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de faillir.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de faillir.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afillit
- faililt
- failit
- faillitt
- faillti
- falilit
- ffaillit
- fiallit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of faillit - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "faillit", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).