red-faced
"red-faced" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“red-faced” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, face.
Corpus desk
Index EN-red-faced · red-faced · English
red-faced · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" 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 | red-faced |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “red-faced” in English
Rare enough to double-check
red-faced is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
red-faced doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is red-faced, spelled R-E-D---F-A-C-E-D.
Definition
- 1Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, face.
- 2With a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes.
- 3With a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes.
- 4With a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes.
- 5With a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes.
- 6With a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how red-faced appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I suppose that nowadays the red-faced farmers, whose invariable topic (so a friendly guard who understood Welsh told me) was sheep and their prices, find their own cars or the buses more convenient than a Western Region main line for their short-distance peregrinations to market.
A red-faced bird with a striking white head and underside, and black-and-white wings and tail, the Palmnut Vulture lives in tropical forested areas of Africa, often by lakes, rivers, and seashores.
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.