fasel
obsolete
fasel is a verb meaning “To unravel or become frayed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-S-E-L, and it appears about once in every 65 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does fasel mean?
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo unravel or become frayed.
- 2
obsoleteTo become confused or ravelled.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fasel
- fasels present, singular, he/she/it
- faselling participle, present
- faselled participle, past
- fasyll
- fazle
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fasel?
Fasel appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th 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 fasel come from?
From Middle English faselen (“to fray”), from fasel (“frayed”, adjective) and fasel (“a frayed edge or border, fringe”, noun), probably a diminutive of Middle English fas (“fringe”), from Old English fæs (“fringe”). Compare Dutch vezel (“fibre, filament”), German faseln (“to ravel out, ramble”). Doublet of pizzle.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).