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faceting

noun, verb

faceting is a noun meaning “An arrangement into facets” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-C-E-T-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 29 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of faceting is facetings.

What does faceting mean?

noun

  1. 1

    An arrangement into facets.

    the facetings of the small ditrigonal icosidodecahedron

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of facet (a form of facet)

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

Forms of faceting

  • facetings plural
  • facetting

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

How common is faceting?

Faceting appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th 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).