face arrière
\fa.s‿a.ʁjɛʁ\
The verdict
“face arrière” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie de la surface d’un objet céleste ou spatial qui se trouve à l’arrière, si l’on considère le sens de déplacement de l’objet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-face-arriere · face arrière · French
face arrière · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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 | face arrière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.s‿a.ʁjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « face arrière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
face arrière is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fa.s‿a.ʁjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partie de la surface d’un objet céleste ou spatial qui se trouve à l’arrière, si l’on considère le sens de déplacement de l’objet.".
No misspelling variants are generated for face arrière in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is face arrière, spelled F-A-C-E- -A-R-R-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Partie de la surface d’un objet céleste ou spatial qui se trouve à l’arrière, si l’on considère le sens de déplacement de l’objet.
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.