Which to use
“faibles” and “fiables” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,257
- “faibles” frequency rank
- #11,050
- “fiables” frequency rank
- 14307
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | faibles | fiables |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pluriel de faible. | Pluriel de fiable. |
Where the eye mixes faibles and fiables
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. faibles and fiables follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: faibles vs fiables
A purely visual mix-up. faibles (\fɛbl\) and fiables (\fjabl\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ only by swapping two adjacent letters (ai ↔ ia) - a transposition the eye reads straight past. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 14307, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
faibles is recorded at frequency rank #3,257, classified as anadj, pronounced \fɛbl\. fiables is at rank #11,050, tagged as anadj, pronounced \fjabl\.
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 14307, this pair ranks #397,273 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of faibles vs fiables
Shared letters: abefils. Private to "faibles": -. Private to "fiables": -.
"faibles" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC · "fiables" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "faibles" and "fiables" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "faibles" or "fiables"?
After this comparison
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "faibles" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "fiables" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #397,273 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "faibles" and "fiables" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fiables vs friable". 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 #397,273 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.