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faced

/feɪst/adjective, verb

faced is spelled F-A-C-E-D: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 31 times per million words in written English, the 3,052nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, faced means “Having a specified type or number of faces” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in faced?

Letters5: F-A-C-E-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing31 times per million words; the 3,052nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is faced?

Faced appears 31 times per million words in written English, the 3,052nd 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).

How do you pronounce faced?

  • /feɪst/

Faced 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). Recordings: En-us-faced.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with faced?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as faced.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: decaf.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of faced

  • more faced comparative
  • most faced superlative

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

What does faced mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Having a specified type or number of faces.

  2. 2

    Having the outer surface dressed, with the front, as of a dress, covered ornamentally with another material.

    The cuffs were faced with velvet.

  3. 3

    With a specific kind of face.

    stony-faced

  4. 4

    slangdrunk

    That night was the first time I ever got faced.

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of face (a form of face)

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

Where does faced come from?

From face + -ed.

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

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