fakie
noun, adjective, verb
fakie is a noun meaning “The riding backwards of the board, in the opposite stance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-K-I-E, and it appears about once in every 24 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fakie is fakies.
What does fakie mean?
noun
- 1
The riding backwards of the board, in the opposite stance.
- 2
The act of riding a BMX bicycle backwards and pedalling with the sprocket movement while moving backwards, then turning the bars away from the desired direction and sliding out so as to ride forwards again.
- 3
A breast implant (almost always used in plural, as "fakies", because a woman has two of them).
adjective
- 1
Performed using the fakie stance.
verb
- 1
To ride using a fakie stance.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fakie?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-fakie.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fakie
- fakies plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- fakieing participle, present
- fakied participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fakie?
Fakie appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st 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 fakie come from?
From fake + -ie?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).