facile
French, adjective/fa.sil/
facile is spelled F-A-C-I-L-E (6 letters) and appears 126 times per million words in written French, the 657th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Facile is a French adjective meaning “easy, simple” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui se fait sans peine”.
What does facile mean in English?
adjective
- 1
easy, simple
Il n'est pas facile de vivre avec le diabète.
- 2
derogatoryeasy, promiscuous (consenting readily to sex)
une fille facile
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui se fait sans peine. 2. Qui est aisé à faire. 3. Qui ne présente pas de difficultés. 4. Qui est aisé à aborder et à converser.
adverb: 1. Facilement.
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 facile
- faciles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce facile?
- /fa.sil/
- \fa.sil\
- [fa.sil]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to facile
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is facile in French?
facile appears 126 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).