faciès
French, noun/fa.sjɛs/
faciès is spelled F-A-C-I-È-S (6 letters) and appears 1.7 times per million words in written French, the 22,520th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Faciès is a French masculine noun meaning “facies; appearance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Aspect du visage dans les maladies”.
What does faciès mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefacies; appearance
- 2
masculinefacies
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de faciès.
noun: 1. Aspect du visage dans les maladies. 2. Conformation plus ou moins caractéristique du visage. 3. Se dit d’une personne ayant un visage peu agréable. 4. Ensemble de caractères pétrographiques et paléontologiques qui définit un dépôt ou une roche.
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 faciès
- facies
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce faciès?
- /fa.sjɛs/
- \fa.sjɛs\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is faciès in French?
faciès appears 1.7 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).