faillite
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,558
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
faillite is aFrenchnoun. It means: Banqueroute forcée d’un négociant, obligation pour lui de suspendre ses paiements. Pronounced \fa.jit\. It ranks #5,558 in French word frequency. Often confused with fatalité and faillites.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faillite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.jit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,558 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faillite is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fa.jit\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,558 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for faillite, with forms such as "afillite", "faililte", and "failite". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "fatalité", "faillites", "failli", and more, 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 faillite, spelled F-A-I-L-L-I-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Banqueroute forcée d’un négociant, obligation pour lui de suspendre ses paiements.
- 2Terme générique donné à l'impossibilité pour une personne physique ou une personne morale de faire face à ses dettes. Cette impossibilité constatée par un tribunal de commerce ouvre à la personne différents statuts juridiques : cessation de paiement, redressement judiciaire, banqueroute, liquidation judiciaire, surendettement.
- 3Se dit de l’échec d’une entreprise, d’une idée ou d’un système.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afillite,faililte,failite,failliet,faillitte,failltie,falilite,ffaillite,fiallite
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for faillite
Misspelling Variants of "faillite"
Frequency rank: #5,558 in French
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