Faecal or fecal?
faecal is an adjective meaning “Alternative spelling of fecal”; fecal is an adjective meaning “Of or relating to feces”. Wiktionary gives them as spellings of the same word. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) fecal is about 4.5 times as common as faecal.
What is the difference between faecal and fecal?
| faecal | fecal | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | adjective | adjective |
| Meaning | CommonwealthAlternative spelling of fecal | Of or relating to feces |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | /ˈfiːkəl/ |
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words | 1.0 times per million words |
Sources: faecal and fecal in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of faecal and fecal
faecal
- 1
CommonwealthAlternative spelling of fecal
fecal
- 1
Of or relating to feces
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, faecal or fecal?
faecal appears about once in every 4 million words; fecal 1.0 times per million words.
faecal about once in every 4 million wordsfecal 1.0 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search faecal vs fecal?
“faecal vs fecal” is searched about 10 times a month on Google and 10 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“fecal vs faecal”, “faecal or fecal”).
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