facies
/ˈfeɪ.ʃi.iːz/
"facies" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“facies” is uncommon English (frequency #56,740 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,740
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - General appearance.
Corpus desk
Index EN-facies · facies · English
facies · rank #56,740 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,740
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH eyepiece
Nearest frequency peer: eyepiece (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “facies”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Etheridge
Etheridge
43,266 corpus weight
- Evita
Evita
43,264 corpus weight
- eyepiece
eyepiece
43,262 corpus weight
- facies
facies
43,261 corpus weight
- fiddly
fiddly
43,257 corpus weight
- fluvial
fluvial
43,255 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “facies” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | facies |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfeɪ.ʃi.iːz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “facies” in English
Rare enough to double-check
facies is uncommon English at frequency #56,740 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈfeɪ.ʃi.iːz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for facies in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin faciēs (“form, configuration, figure; face, visage, countenance”). Doublet of face. The correct English form is facies, spelled F-A-C-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1General appearance.
- 2Facial features, like an expression or complexion, typical for patients having certain diseases or conditions.
- 3A body of rock with specified characteristics reflecting its formation, composition, age, and fossil content.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how facies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Chilean Amphijubula Schust. (Schuster, 1970a) which has the facies of a small Frullania and agrees with Frullania in leaf insertion and branching, has a nontiered seta with 16 epidermal cell rows surrounding 4 inner rows.
costive facies
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin faciēs (“form, configuration, figure; face, visage, countenance”). Doublet of face.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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