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fas

noun

fas is a noun meaning “plural of fa” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-S, and it appears 1.1 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fas is fases.

What does fas mean?

noun

  1. 1

    plural of fa (a form of fa)

  2. 2

    ScotlandobsoleteA border or fringe.

  3. 3

    ScotlandobsoleteA thing represented as being worthless.

    Not worth a fas

noun

as FAS
  1. 1

    Initialism of fetal alcohol syndrome.

adjective

as FAS
  1. 1

    Initialism of free alongside ship.

noun

as FAs
  1. 1

    plural of FA (a form of FA)

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

Forms of fas

  • fases plural

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

How common is fas?

Fas appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,462nd 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).

Where does fas come from?

From Middle English fas, from Old English fæs.

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