facility
/fəˈsɪlɪti/noun
facility is spelled F-A-C-I-L-I-T-Y: 8 letters and 4 syllables. It appears 40 times per million words in written English, the 2,487th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, facility means “The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of facility is facilities.
How many letters and syllables are in facility?
| Letters | 8: F-A-C-I-L-I-T-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 40 times per million words; the 2,487th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is facility?
Facility appears 40 times per million words in written English, the 2,487th 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).
How do you pronounce facility?
- /fəˈsɪlɪti/
Facility has 4 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). Recordings: En-us-facility.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of facility
- facilities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does facility mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.
Transport facilities in Bangkok are not sufficient to prevent frequent traffic collapses during rush hour.
- 2
A building or campus specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation.
- 3
The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty; simplicity.
- 4
Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.
The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.
- 5
Clipping of credit facility.
- 6
CanadaUSA toilet.
- 7
A condition of mental weakness less than idiocy, but enough to make a person easily persuaded to do something against their better interest.
- 8
datedAffability.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Facility in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | infrastructure, installation, centre, pôle, matériel, équipement |
| German | Einrichtung, Vorrichtung, Anlage, Ausstattung |
| Portuguese | instalação , facilidade |
| Spanish | facilidades , facilidad , recinto, factoría, usina |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does facility come from?
From Middle English facilite, from Middle French facilité, and its source, Latin facilitās. By surface analysis, facile + -ity. Doublet of faculty.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).