faculté

\fa.kyl.te\

/\fa.kyl.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“faculté” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,609. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,609
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Puissance physique ou morale qui rend un être capable d’agir d’une certaine manière, de produire certains effets.

Corpus desk

Index FR-faculte · faculté · French

faculté · rank #3,609 · 11 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,609
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH fac

Nearest frequency peer: fac (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « faculté »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « faculté » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

faculté vs faute
57% similar
faculté vs fault
71% similar
faculté vs fécule
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for faculté
PropertyValue
Headwordfaculté
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fa.kyl.te\
Letters7
Frequency rank#3,609
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « faculté »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.facultése place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « fac » (#3,608), « faisais » (#3,610), « explosion » (#3,607). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « faculté » est au #3,609. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around faculté (IPA \fa.kyl.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,609 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for faculté, with forms such as "afculté", "facculté", and "facluté". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is faculté, spelled F-A-C-U-L-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Puissance physique ou morale qui rend un être capable d’agir d’une certaine manière, de produire certains effets.
  2. 2
    Cette possibilité d’agir, en parlant de choses.
  3. 3
    Pouvoir, moyen, droit de faire une chose.
  4. 4
    Les biens, les ressources, les moyens d’une personne.
  5. 5
    Corps d’enseignement supérieur formant une fraction d’une université.
  6. 6
    La faculté de médecine, ou un médecin traitant qui y a été formé.
  7. 7
    Genre d’exercice ou de composition scolaire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Alors, quand toutes les facultés sont suspendues, nous devenons semblables aux démons de l’enfer qui ressentent le remords, mais qui ignorent le repentir.
  2. Mais en considérant les facultés corporelles et intellectuelles, et les autres moyens de chaque homme en particulier, nous y trouverons encore une plus grande inégalité relativement à la jouissance du droit naturel des hommes.

Synonyms

aptitudepossibilitépouvoirvirtualitécomposanteU.E.R.U.F.R.

This word in other languages

faculty(English)facultad(Español)Fakultät(Deutsch)faculdade(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • afculté
  • facculté
  • facluté
  • facullté
  • faculte
  • facultté
  • faculét
  • facutlé
  • fauclté
  • fcaulté
  • ffaculté

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of faculté - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

afculté2facculté1facluté2facullté1faculte1facultté1faculét2facutlé2
Edit distance from "faculté"

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 "faculté"?
"faculté" is spelled F-A-C-U-L-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \fa.kyl.te\.
What does "faculté" mean?
As a noun, "faculté" means: Puissance physique ou morale qui rend un être capable d’agir d’une certaine manière, de produire certains effets.
What words are commonly confused with "faculté"?
"faculté" is commonly confused with "faute", "fault", "fécule". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "faculté"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "faculté" is \fa.kyl.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "faculté" come from?
"faculté" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

faisais#3,610fiscale#3,611guerres#3,615Pologne#3,633

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

modifier11 variantsAutriche11 variantséquipage11 variantsrelative11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list