faille
noun
faille is a noun meaning “A fabric woven from silk, cotton, or rayon with slight ribs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-I-L-L-E, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of faille is failles.
What does faille mean?
noun
- 1
A fabric woven from silk, cotton, or rayon with slight ribs.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of faille
- failles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is faille?
Faille appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th 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).
Faille in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense fabric:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | faille |
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 faille come from?
From Old French.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).