faced
\ˈfeɪst\
The verdict
“faced” is uncommon French (frequency #88,612 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,612
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prétérit de face.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faced · faced · French
faced · rank #88,612 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,612
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fabiano
Nearest frequency peer: Fabiano (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « faced »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- expédiant
expédiant
11,392 corpus weight
- extrascolai…
extrascolaires
11,391 corpus weight
- Fabiano
Fabiano
11,390 corpus weight
- faced
faced
11,389 corpus weight
- Falloujah
Falloujah
11,387 corpus weight
- famiglia
famiglia
11,386 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « faced » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faced |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈfeɪst\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faced » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faced is uncommon French at frequency #88,612 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈfeɪst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for faced, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is faced, spelled F-A-C-E-D.
Definition
- 1Prétérit de face.
- 2Participe passé de face.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).