feces
/ˈfiːsiːz/noun
feces is spelled F-E-C-E-S: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,798th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “faeces vs feces” about 210 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, feces means “Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from a human or other mammal's stomach to the intestines” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in feces?
| Letters | 5: F-E-C-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.7 times per million words; the 21,798th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search |
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).
How common is feces?
Feces appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,798th 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 feces?
- /ˈfiːsiːz/
Feces has 2 syllables (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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-feces.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with feces
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: faeces.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of feces
- faeces
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does feces mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
CanadaUSDigested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from a human or other mammal's stomach to the intestines.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Feces in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense digested waste material discharged from the bowels:
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 feces come from?
From Latin faecēs, nominative plural of faex (“residue, dregs”), further origin unknown; possibly borrowed from a substrate language.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).