fausseté
French, noun/fos.te/
fausseté is spelled F-A-U-S-S-E-T-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 46,078th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fausseté is a French feminine noun meaning “falseness, falsity, falsehood (property of being false)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qualité d’une chose fausse, ce qui rend une chose fausse”.
What does fausseté mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefalseness, falsity, falsehood (property of being false)
- 2
femininerarefalsehood (false statement)
Near-synonyms: contrevérité, mensonge
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Qualité d’une chose fausse, ce qui rend une chose fausse. 2. Cette chose fausse elle-même. 3. Duplicité, hypocrisie.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fausseté
- faussetés plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fausseté?
- /fos.te/
- \fos.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fausseté
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fausseté in French?
fausseté appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).