faisceau

/\fɛ.so\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#13,596

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

faisceau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Assemblage de certaines choses de même nature et de forme allongée liées ensemble. Pronounced \fɛ.so\. Often confused with faisceaux.

Key facts for faisceau
PropertyValue
Headwordfaisceau
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fɛ.so\
Letters8
Frequency rank#13,596
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of faisceau in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for faisceau is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛ.so\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,596 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for faisceau, with forms such as "afisceau", "faicseau", and "faiscaeu". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "faisceaux", 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 faisceau, spelled F-A-I-S-C-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Assemblage de certaines choses de même nature et de forme allongée liées ensemble.
  2. 2
    Câble formé de l’assemblage de nombreux circuits.
  3. 3
    Canal de communications multiplexées.
  4. 4
    Assemblage de verges, avec une hache au milieu, qui étaient, chez les anciens Romains, le symbole de la puissance des consuls et des dictateurs.
  5. 5
    Assemblage d’au moins trois fusils qu’on forme en engageant les baïonnettes les unes dans les autres, de manière qu’ils soutiennent ceux qu’on appuie sur eux.
  6. 6
    Rayonnement – onde électromagnétique ou particules – émis et se propageant dans une direction donnée.
  7. 7
    Disposition d’aimants pour générer un champ magnétique de forme contrôlée.
  8. 8
    Méthode d’optimisation permettant de minimiser une fonction convexe non-différentiable.
  9. 9
    Ensemble de choses concordantes.
  10. 10
    Meuble représentant dans les armoiries un ensemble d’objets longs (lances, flèches, épées…) rassemblés par un lien. Les objets sont généralement attachés par leur milieu et posés en éventail. On le dit lié quand le lien est d’un émail différent. Le nombre d’objets doit être blasonné. À rapprocher de faisceau de licteur.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: afisceau,faicseau,faiscaeu,faiscceau,faisceua,faisecau,faissceau,fasiceau,ffaisceau,fiasceau

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for faisceau

Misspelling Variants of "faisceau"

afisceau8faicseau8faiscaeu8faiscceau9faisceua8faisecau8faissceau9fasiceau8
Misspelling Variants of "faisceau"

Frequency rank: #13,596 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "faisceau"?
"faisceau" is spelled F-A-I-S-C-E-A-U. The IPA pronunciation is \fɛ.so\.
What does "faisceau" mean?
As a noun, "faisceau" means: Assemblage de certaines choses de même nature et de forme allongée liées ensemble.
What words are commonly confused with "faisceau"?
"faisceau" is commonly confused with "faisceaux". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "faisceau"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "faisceau" is \fɛ.so\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "faisceau" come from?
"faisceau" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.