faena
fa·e·na/fɑˈeɪ.nə/noun
faena is a noun meaning “A series of passes performed by a matador with a muleta or a sword before the kill” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-E-N-A and has 3 syllables (fa·e·na), and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of faena is faenas.
What does faena mean?
noun
- 1
A series of passes performed by a matador with a muleta or a sword before the kill.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce faena?
- /fɑˈeɪ.nə/
Faena has 3 syllables, split fa·e·na in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of faena
- faenas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is faena?
Faena appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st 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).
Faena in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense passes:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does faena come from?
Borrowed from Spanish faena. Doublet of hacienda and fazenda.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).