facon
/ˈfeɪ.kən/noun
facon is a noun meaning “Vegetarian bacon; meat-free imitation bacon, generally made with tofu, tempeh, beans, or buckwheat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-C-O-N, and it appears about once in every 71 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of facon is facons.
What does facon mean?
noun
- 1
Vegetarian bacon; meat-free imitation bacon, generally made with tofu, tempeh, beans, or buckwheat.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce facon?
- /ˈfeɪ.kən/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-facon.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of facon
- facons plural
- fakon
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is facon?
Facon appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th 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).
Facon in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense vegetarian bacon:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | tocino calcado |
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 facon come from?
Blend of fake + bacon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).