farcy
/ˈfɑɹ.si/noun
farcy is a noun meaning “The horse disease glanders, especially its cutaneous form” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-R-C-Y and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of farcy is farcies.
What does farcy mean?
noun
- 1
The horse disease glanders, especially its cutaneous form.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce farcy?
- UK /ˈfɑː.si/
- US /ˈfɑɹ.si/
Farcy has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of farcy
- farcies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is farcy?
Farcy appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th 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 farcy come from?
From French farcin, from Latin farcīminum (“a disease of horses”), from farciō (“to stuff, to fill”). See farce.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).