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FAL

noun

FAL is a noun meaning “FN-FAL (the NATO standard rifle)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-L, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of FAL is FALs.

What does FAL mean?

noun

  1. 1

    FN-FAL (the NATO standard rifle)

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

Forms of FAL

  • FALs plural

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

How common is FAL?

FAL appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 43,187th 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).

Words people confuse with FAL

Also written: fall.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Where does FAL come from?

Initialism of Fusil Automatique Léger.

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