Which to use
“affaibli” and “affaiblis” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #15,556
- “affaibli” frequency rank
- #33,102
- “affaiblis” frequency rank
- 48658
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | affaibli | affaiblis |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | En parlant d’une personne, physique ou morale : rendu faible, diminué physiquement, moralement ou intellectuellement. | Masculin pluriel de affaibli. |
Same sound, different letters: affaibli vs affaiblis
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. affaibli runs 8 letters (VCCVVCCV) against affaiblis's 9 (VCCVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - affaibli and affaiblis
This is the hard kind. affaibli and affaiblis are pronounced identically (\a.fɛ.bli\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “affaibli” sits inside “affaiblis”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48658, 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\. affaiblis is at rank #33,102, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.fɛ.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 48658, this pair ranks #177,067 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of affaibli vs affaiblis
Shared letters: abfil. Private to "affaibli": -. Private to "affaiblis": s.
"affaibli" · 8 letters · shape VCCVVCCV · "affaiblis" · 9 letters · shape VCCVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "affaibli" and "affaiblis" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "affaibli" or "affaiblis" show up more?
What to do next
"affaibli" and "affaiblis" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "affaibli" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "affaiblis" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #177,067 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "affaibli" and "affaiblis" 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 #177,067 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.