fidèles

adj

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The verdict

“fidèles” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,234. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,234
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
15
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fidèle.

Corpus desk

Index FR-fideles · fidèles · French

fidèles · rank #4,234 · 11 variants · 15 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,234
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH fautes

Nearest frequency peer: fautes (-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 « fidèles »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « fidèles » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

fidèles vs files
71% similar
fidèles vs fides
71% similar
fidèles vs filles
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for fidèles
PropertyValue
Headwordfidèles
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
Letters7
Frequency rank#4,234
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fidèles »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.fidèlesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « fautes » (#4,233), « financières » (#4,235), « exercer » (#4,232). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « fidèles » est au #4,234. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around fidèles, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,234 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de fidèle.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for fidèles, with forms such as "fdièles", "ffidèles", and "fiddèles". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "files", "fides", "filles", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fidèles, spelled F-I-D-È-L-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de fidèle.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how fidèles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les gens font le bon apôtre même devant eux-mêmes, essayant de se convaincre qu’ils sont fidèles à nous et faisant tout ce qui prouve leur infidélité.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • fdièles
  • ffidèles
  • fiddèles
  • fideles
  • fidlèes
  • fidèels
  • fidèless
  • fidèlles
  • fidèlse
  • fièdles
  • ifdèles

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fidèles - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

fdièles2ffidèles1fiddèles1fideles1fidlèes2fidèels2fidèless1fidèlles1
Edit distance from "fidèles"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fidèles"?
"fidèles" is spelled F-I-D-È-L-E-S.
What does "fidèles" mean?
As an adjective, "fidèles" means: Pluriel de fidèle.
What words are commonly confused with "fidèles"?
"fidèles" is commonly confused with "files", "fides", "filles". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "fidèles" come from?
"fidèles" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fidèles", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

exercer#4,232crédits#4,224observe#4,257partant#4,262

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

dépasser11 variantsdiminuer11 variantschauffeur11 variantspoitrine11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list