facture
/ˈfæk.t͡ʃəɹ/noun
facture is a noun meaning “An invoice or bill of parcels” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-C-T-U-R-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 54 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of facture is factures.
What does facture mean?
noun
- 1
archaicThe act or manner of making or doing anything, especially of a literary, musical, or pictorial production.
- 2
datedAn invoice or bill of parcels.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce facture?
- UK /ˈfæk.tʃə/
- US /ˈfæk.t͡ʃəɹ/
Facture has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-facture.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of facture
- factures plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is facture?
Facture appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th 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).
Where does facture come from?
From French facture (“a making, invoice”), from Latin factura (“a making”). Doublet of feature. See fact.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).