Which to use
“facilité” and “faillite” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #5,038
- “facilité” frequency rank
- #5,558
- “faillite” frequency rank
- 10596
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | facilité | faillite |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qualité de ce qui est fait ou employé sans peine. | Banqueroute forcée d’un négociant, obligation pour lui de suspendre ses paiements. |
Where the eye mixes facilité and faillite
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: facilité vs faillite
A purely visual mix-up. facilité (\fa.si.li.te\) and faillite (\fa.jit\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10596, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
facilité is recorded at frequency rank #5,038, classified as anoun, pronounced \fa.si.li.te\. faillite is at rank #5,558, tagged as anoun, pronounced \fa.jit\.
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 10596, this pair ranks #412,374 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of facilité vs faillite
Shared letters: afilt. Private to "facilité": cé. Private to "faillite": e.
"facilité" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV · "faillite" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- faillite ← afillite · faililte · failite · failliet · faillitte · failltie · falilite · ffaillite
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "facilité" and "faillite" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "facilité" or "faillite" show up more?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "facilité" and "faillite" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "facilité" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "faillite" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #412,374 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "facilité" and "faillite" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "facilité vs futilité". 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 #412,374 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.