facesitting
noun, verb
facesitting is a noun meaning “The sexual practice of sitting on a partner’s face, sometimes to receive cunnilingus or anilingus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-C-E-S-I-T-T-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does facesitting mean?
noun
- 1
The sexual practice of sitting on a partner’s face, sometimes to receive cunnilingus or anilingus.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of facesit
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce facesitting?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-facesitting.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is facesitting?
Facesitting appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 128,787th 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 facesitting come from?
Compound of face + sitting.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).