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fa

French, noun

fa is spelled F-A (2 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written French, the 6,701st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fa is a French masculine noun meaning “fa, the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note 'F'” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, FA is a different word: “AF (“atrial fibrillation”): initialism of fibrillation auriculaire or…”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “La quatrième note de la gamme en musique occidentale”.

What does fa mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinefa, the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note 'F'

noun

as FA
  1. 1

    feminineAF (“atrial fibrillation”): initialism of fibrillation auriculaire or fibrillation atriale

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. La quatrième note de la gamme en musique occidentale. 2. Signe qui représente cette note. 3. Fa de l’octave du milieu dans la gamme d’un instrument de musique par opposition à l’octave inférieure ou supérieure.

noun: 1. Nom de la vingtième lettre de l’alphabet arabe (\f\ Isolée ﻑ, initiale ﻓ, médiane ﻔ, finale ﻒ).

adjective: 1. variante orthographique de fang ; relatif au fang.

noun: 1. variante orthographique de fang (langue).

noun: 1. variante orthographique de Fang

noun: 1. Abréviation de fabrication additive. 2. Abréviation de Fédération anarchiste. 3. Abréviation de Fédération addiction, association française regroupant des professionnels de l’addiction.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of fa

  • FAs plural
  • fa’

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to fa

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is fa in French?

fa appears 10 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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