facilité
French, noun
facilité is spelled F-A-C-I-L-I-T-É (8 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written French, the 5,025th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Facilité is a French feminine noun meaning “ease, easiness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of faciliter. Without its accent, facilite is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qualité de ce qui est fait ou employé sans peine”.
What does facilité mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineease, easiness
solution de facilité
adjective
- 1
facilitated
verb
- 1
past participle of faciliter
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Qualité de ce qui est fait ou employé sans peine. 2. Moyen qui permet d’exécuter sans peine. 3. , Commodités, délais accordés à un acheteur, à un débiteur. 4. Disposition naturelle ou acquise, grâce à laquelle on exécute quelque chose sans peine, sans effort.
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 facilité
- facilités plural
- facilitée feminine
- facilitées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to facilité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is facilité in French?
facilité appears 14 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).