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farside

noun

farside is a noun meaning “The side of a moon that faces away from the planet that it orbits” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-R-S-I-D-E, and it appears about once in every 43 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of farside is farsides.

What does farside mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The side of a moon that faces away from the planet that it orbits.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of farside

  • farsides plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is farside?

Farside appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd 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 farside come from?

From far + side.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).