faecal

adjective

faecal is an adjective meaning “Alternative spelling of fecal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-E-C-A-L, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does faecal mean?

adjective

1
CommonwealthAlternative spelling of fecal.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is faecal?

Faecal appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 62,179th most frequent word form in the list.

faecal0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Words people confuse with faecal

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

faecal vs fecal10 G

Also written: fecal.

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).