faze
/feɪz/verb
faze is spelled F-A-Z-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,393rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “faze vs phase” about 880 times a month (Google, United States). As a verb, faze means “To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in faze?
| Letters | 4: F-A-Z-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 32,393rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is faze?
Faze appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,393rd 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 pronounce faze?
- US /feɪz/
- Australia /fæɪz/
Faze has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-faze.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with faze
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: phase (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: phase.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with faze?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as faze from its last stressed vowel (/eɪz/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of faze
- fazes present, singular, he/she/it
- fazing participle, present
- fazed participle, past
- phase
- feaze
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does faze mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
informalTo frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb.
Jumping out of an airplane does not faze him, yet he is afraid to ride a roller coaster.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Faze in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off; to disconcert, perturb:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | effrayer |
| German | aus der Fassung bringen, in Unruhe versetzen, abschrecken, schrecken |
| Portuguese | amedrontar |
| Spanish | inmutar |
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 faze come from?
From English dialectal (Kentish) feeze, feese (“to alarm, discomfit, frighten”), from Middle English fēsen (“to chase, drive away; put to flight; discomfit, frighten, terrify”), from Old English fēsan, fȳsan (“to send forth; to hasten, impel, stimulate; to banish, drive away, put to flight; to prepare oneself”), from Proto-West Germanic *funsijan, from Proto-Germanic *funsijaną (“to predispose, make favourable; to make ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go; to walk”). The word is cognate with Old Saxon fūsian (“to strive”), Old Norse fýsa (“to drive, goad; to admonish”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).