facility
/fəˈsɪl.ᵻ.ti/
"facility" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“facility” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #2,484 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #2,484
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | facility |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fəˈsɪl.ᵻ.ti/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,484 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “facility” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for facility is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /fəˈsɪl.ᵻ.ti/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,484 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for facility, with forms such as "afcility", "faccility", and "faciilty". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "faculty", "fatality", "futility", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English facilite, from Middle French facilité, and its source, Latin facilitās. By surface analysis, facile + -ity. Doublet of faculty. The correct English form is facility, spelled F-A-C-I-L-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.
- 2A building or campus specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation.
- 3The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty; simplicity.
- 4Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.
- 5Clipping of credit facility.
- 6A toilet.
- 7A condition of mental weakness less than idiocy, but enough to make a person easily persuaded to do something against their better interest.
- 8Affability.
Etymology
From Middle English facilite, from Middle French facilité, and its source, Latin facilitās. By surface analysis, facile + -ity. Doublet of faculty.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afcility,faccility,faciilty,facilitty,facilityy,faciliyt,facillity,faciltiy,facliity,faiclity,fcaility,ffacility
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of facility - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “facility”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-A-C-I-L-I-T-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /fəˈsɪl.ᵻ.ti/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “faculty” - see the side-by-side comparison. facility vs faculty
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.