face
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#311
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
face is aFrenchnoun. It means: Visage. Pronounced \fas\. It ranks #311 in French word frequency. Often confused with FC and fe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | face |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fas\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for face is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fas\. Corpus data places it at rank #311 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for face, with forms such as "afce", "facce", and "faec". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FC", "fe", "fan", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is face, spelled F-A-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Visage.
- 2Figure humaine.
- 3La partie antérieure de la tête.
- 4Le côté d’une pièce de monnaie où est empreinte la figure , à l'opposé du côté pile.
- 5Mesure qui sert à déterminer les proportions du corps humain, et qui est égale à la longueur du visage.
- 6Superficie, en parlant des choses.
- 7Hémisphère visible ou non visible d'un astre pour un observateur.
- 8Les diverses portions de surface plane qui terminent un solide.
- 9Chacune des parties qui composent la superficie d’un organe.
- 10Chacun des différentes parties extérieures ou des différents aspects d’un objet placé de diverses façons ou vu de divers côtés.
- 11Le devant d’un édifice ou d’une de ses parties considérables.
- 12Chacune des bandes dont est composée l’architrave.
- 13Chacun des deux côtés qui sont entre les flancs et la pointe d’un bastion.
- 14État ou situation des affaires.
- 15Un des divers aspects ou des divers points de vue sous lequel une chose, une affaire peut être examinée, considérée.
- 16Boucle de cheveux qui couvre les oreilles.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afce,facce,faec,fcae,fface
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for face
Misspelling Variants of "face"
Frequency rank: #311 in French
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