foible

Other forms of foible

plural

foibles·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about foible

What does foible mean?

foible means "a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in foible?

foible has 2 syllables: foi-ble. The stress falls on "foi". In IPA it is /ˈfɔɪbəl/.

What is another word for foible?

Close synonyms include idiosyncrasy, mannerism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is foible a common word?

foible is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.