fibre
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,089
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
fibre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Élément anatomique long et frêle, pour animaux ou végétaux. Pronounced \fibʁ\. It ranks #6,089 in French word frequency. Often confused with fie and fier.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fibre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fibʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,089 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fibre is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fibʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,089 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for fibre, with forms such as "fbire", "ffibre", and "fibbre". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fie", "fier", "fixe", 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 fibre, spelled F-I-B-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Élément anatomique long et frêle, pour animaux ou végétaux.
- 2Forme dont la longueur est trois fois supérieure au diamètre
- 3Se dit aussi des filaments des substances terreuses ou métalliques.
- 4Fibre optique : un fil en verre ou en matière plastique très fin qui a la propriété de conduire la lumière et sert dans les transmissions terrestres et océaniques de données. Entourée d'une gaine protectrice, la fibre optique peut être utilisée pour conduire de la lumière entre deux lieux distants de plusieurs centaines, voire milliers, de kilomètres. Le signal lumineux codé par une variation d'intensité est capable de transmettre une grande quantité d'informations.
- 5Corde d’une lyre.
- 6Disposition à certaines sensibilités, à s’irriter, à s’émouvoir.
- 7Morceau, élément.
- 8Synonyme de thread virtuel.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fbire,ffibre,fibbre,fiber,fibrre,firbe,ifbre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fibre
Misspelling Variants of "fibre"
Frequency rank: #6,089 in French
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