fascicle
fas·cic·le/ˈfæs.ɪ.kəl/noun
fascicle is spelled F-A-S-C-I-C-L-E, 3 syllables: fas·cic·le. The wrong spelling people search most is fasicle: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Fascicle is a noun meaning “A bundle or cluster”. The plural of fascicle is fascicles.
How do you spell fascicle?
Fascicle is spelled F-A-S-C-I-C-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for fascicle in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
What does fascicle mean?
noun
- 1
A bundle or cluster.
- 2
A bundle of skeletal muscle fibers surrounded by connective tissue.
- 3
A cluster of flowers or leaves, such as the bundles of the thin leaves (or needles) of pines.
- 4
A discrete bundle of vascular tissue.
- 5
A discrete section of a book issued or published separately, generally as a temporary measure while the work is in progress.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fascicle?
- /ˈfæs.ɪ.kəl/
Fascicle has 3 syllables, split fas·cic·le in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-fascicle.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fascicle
- fascicles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fascicle?
Fascicle appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 111,684th 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 abbreviate fascicle?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of fascicle: fasc..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Fascicle in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense bundle of skeletal muscle fibers:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Faserbündel |
| Spanish | fascículo |
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 fascicle come from?
From Latin fasciculus, a diminutive of fascis (“bundle”); see also fasces. Doublet of fasciculus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).