facette
French, noun
facette is spelled F-A-C-E-T-T-E (7 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 26,299th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Facette is a French feminine noun meaning “facet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, facetté is a different word: “facetted”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Petite face, une des petites faces d’un corps qui en a plusieurs”.
What does facette mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefacet
adjective
- 1
facetted
verb
- 1
past participle of facetter
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Petite face, une des petites faces d’un corps qui en a plusieurs. 2. Facettes dentaires céramiques, qui se collent sur la face visible des dents antérieures. 3. Un des aspects sous lequel on peut voir une chose. 4. Qualité, compétence d’une personne.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of facette
- facettes plural
- facettée feminine
- facettés masculine plural
- facettées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to facette
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is facette in French?
facette appears 1.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).