facepaint
noun
facepaint is a noun meaning “Paint used to decorate people's faces” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-C-E-P-A-I-N-T, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of facepaint is facepaints.
What does facepaint mean?
noun
- 1
Paint used to decorate people's faces.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of facepaint
- facepaints plural
- face paint
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is facepaint?
Facepaint appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th 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 facepaint come from?
From face + paint.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).