face

/\fas\/ noun

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.

Key facts for face
PropertyValue
Headwordface
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fas\
Letters4
Frequency rank#311
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of face in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Visage.
  2. 2
    Figure humaine.
  3. 3
    La partie antérieure de la tête.
  4. 4
    Le côté d’une pièce de monnaie où est empreinte la figure , à l'opposé du côté pile.
  5. 5
    Mesure qui sert à déterminer les proportions du corps humain, et qui est égale à la longueur du visage.
  6. 6
    Superficie, en parlant des choses.
  7. 7
    Hémisphère visible ou non visible d'un astre pour un observateur.
  8. 8
    Les diverses portions de surface plane qui terminent un solide.
  9. 9
    Chacune des parties qui composent la superficie d’un organe.
  10. 10
    Chacun des différentes parties extérieures ou des différents aspects d’un objet placé de diverses façons ou vu de divers côtés.
  11. 11
    Le devant d’un édifice ou d’une de ses parties considérables.
  12. 12
    Chacune des bandes dont est composée l’architrave.
  13. 13
    Chacun des deux côtés qui sont entre les flancs et la pointe d’un bastion.
  14. 14
    État ou situation des affaires.
  15. 15
    Un des divers aspects ou des divers points de vue sous lequel une chose, une affaire peut être examinée, considérée.
  16. 16
    Boucle 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"

afce4facce5faec4fcae4fface5
Misspelling Variants of "face"

Frequency rank: #311 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "face"?
"face" is spelled F-A-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fas\.
What does "face" mean?
As a noun, "face" means: Visage.
What words are commonly confused with "face"?
"face" is commonly confused with "FC", "fe", "fan". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "face"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "face" is \fas\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "face" come from?
"face" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.