fals
noun
fals is a noun meaning “Medieval copper coin first produced by the Umayyad caliphate beginning in the late 7th century” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-L-S, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fals is fulus.
What does fals mean?
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Medieval copper coin first produced by the Umayyad caliphate beginning in the late 7th century.
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Abbreviation of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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Alternative form of fALS; Abbreviation of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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plural of FAL
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fals
- fulus plural
- fils
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fals?
Fals appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 118,441st 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 fals come from?
From Arabic فَلْس (fals), from Aramaic פילס / ܦܠܣ / פולסא / ܦܘܠܣܐ (/fuləsā, filas/), from Ancient Greek φόλλις (phóllis), from Latin follis. Doublet of follis and fool.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).