facéties
\fa.se.si\
The verdict
“facéties” is uncommon French (frequency #68,276 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,276
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de facétie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faceties · facéties · French
facéties · rank #68,276 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,276
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fabriquons
Nearest frequency peer: fabriquons (-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 « facéties »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- explosivité
explosivité
31,729 corpus weight
- exposes
exposes
31,728 corpus weight
- fabriquons
fabriquons
31,726 corpus weight
- facéties
facéties
31,725 corpus weight
- fantasmatiq…
fantasmatique
31,723 corpus weight
- fantasques
fantasques
31,722 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « facéties » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | facéties |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.se.si\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,276 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « facéties » en français
Rare enough to double-check
facéties is uncommon French at frequency #68,276 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fa.se.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de facétie.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for facéties in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is facéties, spelled F-A-C-É-T-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de facétie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how facéties appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On passe donc du noir et blanc à la couleur et des échanges savoureux entre les deux génies (auxquels Alain Chabat et Laurent Lafitte prêtent leur voix) aux facéties de Nicolas et de ses petits copains.
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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