faculté
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,609
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
faculté is aFrenchnoun. It means: Puissance physique ou morale qui rend un être capable d’agir d’une certaine manière, de produire certains effets. Pronounced \fa.kyl.te\. It ranks #3,609 in French word frequency. Often confused with faute and fault.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faculté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.kyl.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,609 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faculté is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fa.kyl.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,609 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for faculté, with forms such as "afculté", "facculté", and "facluté". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "faute", "fault", "fécule", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is faculté, spelled F-A-C-U-L-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Puissance physique ou morale qui rend un être capable d’agir d’une certaine manière, de produire certains effets.
- 2Cette possibilité d’agir, en parlant de choses.
- 3Pouvoir, moyen, droit de faire une chose.
- 4Les biens, les ressources, les moyens d’une personne.
- 5Corps d’enseignement supérieur formant une fraction d’une université.
- 6La faculté de médecine, ou un médecin traitant qui y a été formé.
- 7Genre d’exercice ou de composition scolaire.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afculté,facculté,facluté,facullté,faculte,facultté,faculét,facutlé,fauclté,fcaulté,ffaculté
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for faculté
Misspelling Variants of "faculté"
Frequency rank: #3,609 in French
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