Which to use
“face” and “faces” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #335
- “face” frequency rank
- #2,536
- “faces” frequency rank
- 2871
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | face | faces |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the surrounding area. | plural of face |
Where the eye mixes face and faces
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
A purely visual mix-up. face (/feɪs/) and faces (/ˈfeɪsɪz/) 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 1 extra letter(s) - “face” sits inside “faces”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 2871, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
face is recorded at frequency rank #335, classified as anoun, pronounced /feɪs/. faces is at rank #2,536, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈfeɪsɪz/.
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 2871, this pair ranks #523,787 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of face vs faces
Shared letters: acef. Private to "face": -. Private to "faces": s.
"face" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "faces" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC