fascia
\fa.sja\
The verdict
“fascia” is uncommon French (frequency #85,716 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,716
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bande d’étoffe longue et étroite employée comme bandage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fascia · fascia · French
fascia · rank #85,716 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,716
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fantoches
Nearest frequency peer: fantoches (-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 « fascia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fak
fak
14,287 corpus weight
- fantoches
fantoches
14,286 corpus weight
- fascia
fascia
14,285 corpus weight
- faz
faz
14,284 corpus weight
- feste
feste
14,283 corpus weight
- feud
feud
14,282 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fascia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fascia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.sja\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fascia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fascia is uncommon French at frequency #85,716 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fa.sja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
fascia doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fascia, spelled F-A-S-C-I-A.
Definition
- 1Bande d’étoffe longue et étroite employée comme bandage.
- 2Bandage attaché autour de la poitrine des jeunes filles pour arrêter par la pression le développement du sein.
- 3Expansion aponévrotique (aponévrose), servant d’enveloppe à des organes sous-jacents qu’elle est destinée à maintenir dans leur position respective.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fascia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsque le corps subit un stress, des répercussions surviennent sur le réseau élastique des fascias et engendrent des crispations sur certaines zones.
Le fascia a longtemps été considéré comme un simple tissu de remplissage du corps humain. Il enveloppait les organes et il fallait l’enlever pour observer plus distinctement les éléments anatomiques.
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.
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