fax
French, noun/faks/
fax is spelled F-A-X (3 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written French, the 15,330th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fax is a French masculine noun meaning “fax” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Document numérisé, transmis par liaison téléphonique, puis imprimé par le matériel de réception”.
What does fax mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefax
- 2
masculinefax machine
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Document numérisé, transmis par liaison téléphonique, puis imprimé par le matériel de réception. 2. L’appareil permettant la numérisation, la transmission, la réception, et l’impression du facsimilé.
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.
How do you pronounce fax?
- /faks/
- \faks\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fax
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fax in French?
fax appears 3.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).