farce
/fɑɹs/noun, verb
farce is spelled F-A-R-C-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 18,811th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, farce means “A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of farce is farces.
How many letters and syllables are in farce?
| Letters | 5: F-A-R-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.1 times per million words; the 18,811th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is farce?
Farce appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 18,811th 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).
How do you pronounce farce?
- UK /fɑːs/
- US /fɑɹs/
Farce has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-Farce.ogg, En-us-farce.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with farce?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as farce from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹs/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: facer.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of farce
- farces plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- farcing participle, present
- farced participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does farce mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
- 2
A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.
The farce that we saw last night had us laughing and shaking our heads at the same time.
- 3
A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.
The first month of labor negotiations was a farce.
- 4
A ridiculous or empty show.
- 5
An elaborate lie.
- 6
Forcemeat, stuffing.
verb
- 1
To stuff with forcemeat or other food items.
- 2
To fill full; to stuff.
- 3
obsoleteTo make fat.
- 4
obsoleteTo swell out; to render pompous.
- 5
Alternative form of farse (“to insert vernacular paraphrases into (a Latin liturgy)”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Farce in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | farce , farcir |
| German | Farce, Posse , farcieren |
| Portuguese | farsa |
| Spanish | farsa , sainete |
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 farce come from?
Borrowed from Middle French farce (“farce (style of humor); stuffing”) (in the latter sense, via Middle English fars, farsse), from Old French farse, from Medieval Latin farsa, from the feminine perfect passive participle of Latin farciō (“to stuff”). The theatre sense alludes to the pleasant and varied character of certain stuffed food items. Doublet of farse.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).