find fault
"find-fault" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“find fault” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To criticize something excessively.
Corpus desk
Index EN-find-fault · find fault · English
find fault · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | find fault |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “find fault” in English
Rare enough to double-check
find fault is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To criticize something excessively.".
find fault has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is find fault, spelled F-I-N-D- -F-A-U-L-T.
Definition
- 1To criticize something excessively.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how find fault appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
No matter what I do, he always finds fault.
My supervisor always finds fault with my work.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.