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fait

noun

fait is a noun meaning “Only used in fait accompli” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-I-T and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fait is faits.

What does fait mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Only used in fait accompli.

Usage

Wiktionary also records fait as a common misspelling of another word in some uses; the senses above are its own.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce fait?

    Fait has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Forms of fait

    • faits plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    How common is fait?

    Fait appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,998th most frequent word form in the list.

    Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).