factorielle

\fak.tɔ.ʁjɛl\

/\fak.tɔ.ʁjɛl\/ noun

The verdict

“factorielle” is uncommon French (frequency #78,416 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#78,416
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Résultat de la multiplication d’un nombre entier par tous les nombres entiers supérieurs à 0 inférieurs à celui-ci.

Corpus desk

Index FR-factorielle · factorielle · French

factorielle · rank #78,416 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #78,416
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH Fabergé

Nearest frequency peer: Fabergé (-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 « factorielle »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « factorielle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for factorielle
PropertyValue
Headwordfactorielle
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fak.tɔ.ʁjɛl\
Letters11
Frequency rank#78,416
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « factorielle » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).factorielletombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « Fabergé » (#78,415), « fanal » (#78,417), « extrajudiciaires » (#78,414). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « factorielle » est au #78,416. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

factorielle is uncommon French at frequency #78,416 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fak.tɔ.ʁjɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Résultat de la multiplication d’un nombre entier par tous les nombres entiers supérieurs à 0 inférieurs à celui-ci.".

factorielle has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is factorielle, spelled F-A-C-T-O-R-I-E-L-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Résultat de la multiplication d’un nombre entier par tous les nombres entiers supérieurs à 0 inférieurs à celui-ci.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how factorielle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La factorielle de 5, qu’on note 5!, est égale à 5×4×3×2×1, soit 120.
  2. Dans la suite de cette thèse, nous établissons une condition nécesssaire et suffisante pour l'intégralité des coefficients de Taylor des applications miroir définies par des quotients de factorielles de formes linéaires.

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "factorielle"?
"factorielle" is spelled F-A-C-T-O-R-I-E-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fak.tɔ.ʁjɛl\.
What does "factorielle" mean?
As a noun, "factorielle" means: Résultat de la multiplication d’un nombre entier par tous les nombres entiers supérieurs à 0 inférieurs à celui-ci.
How do you pronounce "factorielle"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "factorielle" is \fak.tɔ.ʁjɛl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "factorielle" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "factorielle", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list