faciaux
\fa.sjo\
The verdict
“faciaux” is uncommon French (frequency #69,072 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,072
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de facial.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faciaux · faciaux · French
faciaux · rank #69,072 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,072
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH facilitées
Nearest frequency peer: facilitées (+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 « faciaux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- extrusion
extrusion
30,932 corpus weight
- facepalm
facepalm
30,931 corpus weight
- faciaux
faciaux
30,929 corpus weight
- facilitées
facilitées
30,928 corpus weight
- fadaises
fadaises
30,927 corpus weight
- fado
fado
30,926 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « faciaux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faciaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fa.sjo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faciaux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faciaux is uncommon French at frequency #69,072 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fa.sjo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de facial.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for faciaux, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is faciaux, spelled F-A-C-I-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de facial.
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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