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biface

noun

biface is a noun meaning “A double-sided stone tool” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-I-F-A-C-E, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of biface is bifaces.

What does biface mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A double-sided stone tool

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

Forms of biface

  • bifaces plural

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

How common is biface?

Biface appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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).

Biface in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense tool:

LanguageWords
Frenchbiface
Spanishbifaz

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does biface come from?

From bi- + face.

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