fav
noun, adjective, verb
fav is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of fave” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-V, and it appears 1.7 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fav is favs.
What does fav mean?
noun
- 1
Alternative spelling of fave.
adjective
- 1
Alternative spelling of fave.
verb
- 1
Alternative spelling of fave.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fav?
- General-American
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-fav.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fav
- favs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- more fav comparative
- most fav superlative
- faving participle, present
- faved participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fav?
Fav appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,516th 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).
Words people confuse with fav
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: fave.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).