faex
"faex" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“faex” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - singular of faeces
Corpus desk
Index EN-faex · faex · English
faex · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faex |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “faex” in English
Rare enough to double-check
faex is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "singular of faeces".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for faex, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin faex. The correct English form is faex, spelled F-A-E-X.
Definition
- 1singular of faeces
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faex appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In some cases he has identified the plant parasites also in the intestine of insects (Hemiptera and Muscidae) living on the plants and presumably distributing infection either by bite or by faex.[…]It gives a concise and coherent general account of the biology, the Protozoa, group by group, as exemplified by representative species and deals in well digest…
The colour of the faeces presumably depends on that of the sand on which the worm happens to be feeding. It would be difficult to explain the following laboratory observation in any other way. A worm, which was setting up a new head shaft, produced a cylinder consisting of 4 cm. of yellow matter followed by 3 cm. of black, the two separated by a sharp bou…
Etymology
From Latin faex.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.