FB
\ɛf.be\
The verdict
“FB” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,047) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,047
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Frère du père. Oncle paternel. On est pour son FB un BS ou une BD.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fb · FB · French
FB · rank #11,047 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,047
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fantasy
Nearest frequency peer: fantasy (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « FB »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- excellentes
excellentes
88,957 corpus weight
- exigent
exigent
88,956 corpus weight
- fantasy
fantasy
88,955 corpus weight
- FB
FB
88,954 corpus weight
- ferez
ferez
88,953 corpus weight
- ferment
ferment
88,952 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « FB » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | FB |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛf.be\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #11,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « FB »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for FB is neighbouring look-alikes ("FN", "FC", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɛf.be\. Frequency #11,047 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Frère du père. Oncle paternel. On est pour son FB un BS ou une BD.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for FB, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FN", "FC", "fo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is FB, spelled F-B.
Definition
- 1Frère du père. Oncle paternel. On est pour son FB un BS ou une BD.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how FB appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le système de règles des Mkako « minerait » l’hypothèse de F. Héritier-Augé (p. 132) sous prétexte que l’énoncé des interdits de redoublement entre consanguins de même sexe ne s’adresse pas explicitement à ceux qui sont liés par une chaîne consanguine croisée (FZ d’une femme et BD d’une femme ; MB d’un homme et ZS d’un homme). […] Dans le premier cas, si…
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.