facedown
adjective, adverb, noun
facedown is an adjective meaning “Alternative form of face-down” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-C-E-D-O-W-N and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 5 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does facedown mean?
adjective
- 1
Alternative form of face-down.
adverb
- 1
Alternative form of face-down.
noun
- 1
Alternative form of face-down (“a confrontation”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce facedown?
Facedown has 2 syllables (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 facedown
- facedowns plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is facedown?
Facedown appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,884th 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 facedown
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: face-down (one word or two).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).