falcate
/ˈfælkeɪt/adjective
falcate is an adjective meaning “Shaped like a sickle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-L-C-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does falcate mean?
adjective
- 1
Shaped like a sickle.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce falcate?
- /ˈfælkeɪt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of falcate
- more falcate comparative
- most falcate superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is falcate?
Falcate appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th 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).
Falcate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense shaped like a sickle:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | falcado |
| Spanish | falcado |
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 falcate come from?
Borrowed from Latin falcātus (“curved, sickle-shaped”), from falx (“sickle”, oblique stem in falc-) + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).