fas
\ˈfasː\
The verdict
“fas” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,890) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,890
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Face, figure, visage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fas · fas · French
fas · rank #47,890 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,890
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH facultatives
Nearest frequency peer: facultatives (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « fas »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- extérioriser
extérioriser
52,114 corpus weight
- fablab
fablab
52,113 corpus weight
- facultatives
facultatives
52,112 corpus weight
- fas
fas
52,111 corpus weight
- faufile
faufile
52,109 corpus weight
- Fayçal
Fayçal
52,108 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « fas » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈfasː\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #47,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « fas »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fas is neighbouring look-alikes ("FN", "FC", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈfasː\. Frequency #47,890 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Gloss: "Face, figure, visage.".
fas has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FN", "FC", "fo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fas, spelled F-A-S.
Definition
- 1Face, figure, visage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sell ar fas vil-ze !
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 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).