friables
\fʁi.jabl\
The verdict
“friables” is uncommon French (frequency #83,897 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,897
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de friable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-friables · friables · French
friables · rank #83,897 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,897
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Freitas
Nearest frequency peer: Freitas (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « friables »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- freed
freed
16,107 corpus weight
- freinages
freinages
16,106 corpus weight
- Freitas
Freitas
16,105 corpus weight
- friables
friables
16,104 corpus weight
- fricassée
fricassée
16,103 corpus weight
- fulgurance
fulgurance
16,101 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « friables » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | friables |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fʁi.jabl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,897 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « friables » en français
Rare enough to double-check
friables is uncommon French at frequency #83,897 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fʁi.jabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de friable.".
friables doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is friables, spelled F-R-I-A-B-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de friable.
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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