fiable
\fjabl\
The verdict
“fiable” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,297. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,297
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - À qui ou auquel on peut se fier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fiable · fiable · French
fiable · rank #6,297 · 7 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,297
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH filtre
Nearest frequency peer: filtre (+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 « fiable »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- exclusion
exclusion
93,707 corpus weight
- extrêmes
extrêmes
93,706 corpus weight
- fiable
fiable
93,704 corpus weight
- filtre
filtre
93,703 corpus weight
- finissent
finissent
93,702 corpus weight
- fiscalité
fiscalité
93,701 corpus weight
What this shows « fiable » 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 | fiable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fjabl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fiable »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around fiable (IPA \fjabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,297 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "À qui ou auquel on peut se fier.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for fiable, with forms such as "ffiable", "fiabble", and "fiabel". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "file", "fille", "fibre", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fiable, spelled F-I-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1À qui ou auquel on peut se fier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fiable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand j’essayais d’en apprendre plus, Jean-Paul me répondait que l’important était de savoir que l’on pouvait faire confiance à Marc, et que le concours d’un indic’ fiable était trop important pour risquer de le perdre.
Selon les calculs les plus fiables, sur un tee-shirt vendu en France 29 euros, l’ouvrière de là-bas, qui y perd ses yeux, ses doigts et sa santé, reçoit 18 centimes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffiable
- fiabble
- fiabel
- fiablle
- fialbe
- fibale
- ifable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fiable - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).