# faculty

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈfæk.əl.ti/ · frequency rank #4,156

## Definitions
1. The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.
2. A division of a university.
3. An ability, power, or skill.
4. An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority.
5. A licence to make alterations to a church.
6. The members of a profession.

## Etymology
From Middle English faculte (“power, property”), from Old French faculte, from Latin facultas (“capability, ability, skill, abundance, plenty, stock, goods, property; in Medieval Latin also a body of teachers”), another form of facilitas (“easiness, facility, etc.”), from facul, another form of facilis (“easy, facile”); see facile. Doublet of facility.

## Easily confused with
- **fault** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/faculty-vs-fault)
- **faults** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/faculty-vs-faults)
- **faulty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/faculty-vs-faulty)
- **facility** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/facility-vs-faculty)

## Common misspellings (11)
`afculty`, `facculty`, `facluty`, `facullty`, `facultty`, `facultyy`, `faculyt`, `facutly`, `fauclty`, `fcaulty`, `ffaculty`

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