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horseface

noun

horseface is spelled H-O-R-S-E-F-A-C-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, horseface means “The face of a horse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of horseface is horsefaces.

How many letters and syllables are in horseface?

Letters9: H-O-R-S-E-F-A-C-E
In writingabout once in every 35 million words; the 180,281st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is horseface?

Horseface appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st 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).

Forms of horseface

  • horsefaces plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does horseface mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The face of a horse.

  2. 2

    A face (of a human or other non-horse animal) that is long and ugly, with coarse features, thus having a resemblance or fancied resemblance to the face of a horse.

  3. 3

    Someone who is unattractive because they have a horseface.

    Near-synonym: dogface

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does horseface come from?

From horse + face.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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