faculties
/ˈfæ.kəl.tiz/
"faculties" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“faculties” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #18,075. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,075
- frequency rank, English
- 18,613
- “F” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural of faculty
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 | faculties |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfæ.kəl.tiz/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #18,075 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “faculties” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around faculties (IPA /ˈfæ.kəl.tiz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,075 among 18,613 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of faculty".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for faculties, with forms such as "afculties", "facculties", and "facluties". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "facilities", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is faculties, spelled F-A-C-U-L-T-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of faculty
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afculties
- facculties
- facluties
- faculites
- facullties
- faculteis
- facultiess
- facultise
- facultties
- facutlies
- fauclties
- fcaulties
- ffaculties
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of faculties - 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 “faculties”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-A-C-U-L-T-I-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈfæ.kəl.tiz/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “facilities” - see the side-by-side comparison. faculties vs facilities
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Same frequency band
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.