facey
adjective
facey is an adjective meaning “Alternative form of facety” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-C-E-Y and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does facey mean?
adjective
- 1
Alternative form of facety.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce facey?
Facey 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 facey
- more facey comparative
- most facey superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is facey?
Facey appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st 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 facey come from?
Apparently from face + -y. Attested slightly later than facety. Uncertain whether connected with earlier facy (“insolent, impudent”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).