# facility

> English word · Noun · IPA /fəˈsɪl.ᵻ.ti/ · frequency rank #2,484

## Definitions
1. The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.
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.
5. Clipping of credit facility.
6. A 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. Affability.

## Etymology
From Middle English facilite, from Middle French facilité, and its source, Latin facilitās. By surface analysis, facile + -ity. Doublet of faculty.

## Easily confused with
- **faculty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/facility-vs-faculty)
- **fatality** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/facility-vs-fatality)
- **futility** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/facility-vs-futility)
- **fragility** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/facility-vs-fragility)

## Common misspellings (12)
`afcility`, `faccility`, `faciilty`, `facilitty`, `facilityy`, `faciliyt`, `facillity`, `faciltiy`, `facliity`, `faiclity`, `fcaility`, `ffacility`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/facility