failure
\ˈfeɪ.ljɚ\
The verdict
“failure” is uncommon French (frequency #73,158 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,158
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Échec.
Corpus desk
Index FR-failure · failure · French
failure · rank #73,158 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,158
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH faillible
Nearest frequency peer: faillible (-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 « failure »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- falsifiée
falsifiée
26,841 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « failure » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | failure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈfeɪ.ljɚ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « failure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
failure is uncommon French at frequency #73,158 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈfeɪ.ljɚ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for failure in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is failure, spelled F-A-I-L-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Échec.
- 2Raté.
- 3Défaillance, échec.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how failure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
All his attempts to break the record ended in failure.
He’s a complete failure.
Antonyms
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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