facility
\fə.ˈsɪl.ɪ.ti\
The verdict
“facility” is uncommon French (frequency #73,155 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,155
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Facilité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-facility · facility · French
facility · rank #73,155 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,155
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fabert
Nearest frequency peer: Fabert (-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 « facility »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- expertiser
expertiser
26,850 corpus weight
- Fabert
Fabert
26,847 corpus weight
- facility
facility
26,846 corpus weight
- fafs
fafs
26,845 corpus weight
- faillible
faillible
26,844 corpus weight
- failure
failure
26,843 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « facility » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | facility |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fə.ˈsɪl.ɪ.ti\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « facility » en français
Rare enough to double-check
facility is uncommon French at frequency #73,155 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fə.ˈsɪl.ɪ.ti\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for facility in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is facility, spelled F-A-C-I-L-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Facilité.
- 2Installation, aménagement, équipement, établissement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how facility appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.
Transport facilities in Bangkok are not sufficient to prevent frequent traffic collapses during rush hour.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).