fada
fa·da/ˈfɑːdə/noun
fada is a noun meaning “The acute accent as used in Irish orthography to mark a long vowel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-D-A and has 2 syllables (fa·da), and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fada is fadas.
What does fada mean?
noun
- 1
The acute accent as used in Irish orthography to mark a long vowel.
When I read in the RIA Dictionary that the third person singular passive perfect of the verb fo-geib or fo-gaib “has been found”, has been found in the form frith, frioth, fo frith, foríth, and whole lot more including fríth with the fada,
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fada?
- /ˈfɑːdə/
Fada has 2 syllables, split fa·da in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fada
- fadas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fada?
Fada appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 99,289th 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 fada come from?
Borrowed from Irish fada (“long”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).