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“affaibli” and “affaiblies” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#15,556
“affaibli” frequency rank
#44,288
“affaiblies” frequency rank
59844
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature affaibli affaiblies
Definition En parlant d’une personne, physique ou morale : rendu faible, diminué physiquement, moralement ou intellectuellement. Féminin pluriel de affaibli.

Where the eye mixes affaibli and affaiblies

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. affaibli runs 8 letters (VCCVVCCV) against affaiblies's 10 (VCCVVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
affaibli
10 ch
affaiblies

Look-alike desk: affaibli vs affaiblies

A purely visual mix-up. affaibli (\a.fɛ.bli\) and affaiblies (\a.fe.bli\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “affaibli” sits inside “affaiblies”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59844, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

affaibli is recorded at frequency rank #15,556, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.fɛ.bli\. affaiblies is at rank #44,288, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.fe.bli\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 59844, this pair ranks #100,891 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of affaibli vs affaiblies

Shared letters: abfil. Private to "affaibli": -. Private to "affaiblies": es.

"affaibli" · 8 letters · shape VCCVVCCV  ·  "affaiblies" · 10 letters · shape VCCVVCCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • affaibli ← afafibli · afaibli · affabili · affaibbli · affaibil · affaiblli · affailbi · affiabli
  • affaiblies ← afafiblies · afaiblies · affabilies · affaibblies · affaibiles · affaibleis · affaibliess · affaiblise

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "affaibli" and "affaiblies" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\a.fɛ.bli\ versus \a.fe.bli\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "affaibli" or "affaiblies"?
"affaibli" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,556 in our French list, against #44,288 for "affaiblies". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "affaibli" and "affaiblies" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "affaibli" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "affaiblies" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #100,891 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "affaibli" and "affaiblies" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "affaiblies vs affaiblis". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #100,891 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list