friable
\fʁi.jabl\
The verdict
“friable” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,663. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,663
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui peut aisément être réduit en poudre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-friable · friable · French
friable · rank #49,663 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,663
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH freudienne
Nearest frequency peer: freudienne (-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 « friable »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- formater
formater
50,341 corpus weight
- fourniront
fourniront
50,340 corpus weight
- freudienne
freudienne
50,339 corpus weight
- friable
friable
50,338 corpus weight
- friteuse
friteuse
50,337 corpus weight
- fronce
fronce
50,336 corpus weight
What this shows « friable » 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 | friable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fʁi.jabl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #49,663 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « friable »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around friable (IPA \fʁi.jabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #49,663 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for friable, with forms such as "ffriable", "firable", and "fraible". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "frivole", "Frisbee", "fable", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is friable, spelled F-R-I-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui peut aisément être réduit en poudre.
- 2Qui paraît cassant ou fragile.
- 3Qui a perdu sa cohésion et s’écrase facilement, en parlant d’un tissu du corps.
- 4Se dit d’un nombre entier dont tous les diviseurs premiers sont petits, par rapport à une borne donnée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how friable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le marbre des guéridons portait aux angles des cassures où il apparaissait plus blanc, d’un grain serré, friable.
Placée au congélateur, la propolis devient friable et peut être récupérée.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffriable
- firable
- fraible
- friabble
- friabel
- friablle
- frialbe
- fribale
- frriable
- rfiable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of friable - 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.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "friable", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).