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Definition: Faux |
FauxAdjective1. Not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated aligator hide". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "faux" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1777. (references) |
Etymology: Faux \Faux\, noun; plural Fauces. [Latin expression]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Faux is the name of several places in France:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Faux."
Synonyms: FauxSynonyms: fake (adj), false (adj), imitation (adj), simulated (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Failure | Blunder; (mistake); fault, omission, miss, oversight, slip, trip, stumble, claudication, footfall; false step, wrong step; faux pas, b_vue, faute, lurch; botchery; (want of skill); scrape, mess, fiasco, breakdown; flunk. |
Guilt | Misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed; malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression; dereliction, delinquency; indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas, peccadillo; flaw, blot, omission; failing, failure; break, bad break , capital crime, delictum. |
Impurity | Incontinence, intrigue, faux pas; amour, amourette; gallantry; debauchery, libertinish, libertinage, fornication; liaison; wenching, venery, dissipation. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Faux |
| English words defined with "faux": blunder, boob ♦ goof ♦ sin ♦ undetected. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "faux": FOX'S PAW ♦ GUY. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Faux" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (artificial, bad, base, bogus, counterfeit, dummy, fake, false, forged, mistaken, mock, phoney, pseudo, scythe, sham, spurious, twisted, untrue, wrong). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Near faux pas. I almost wore the same thing (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Lyrics | Sont rien qu'des faux semblants (I Will Love Again; performing artist: Lara Fabian) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Le Faux magistrat (1914) La Faux (2003) Le Faux pli (2003) Vrais jumeaux Faux frères (2003) Faux Pas (2001) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Le Faux Dentiste. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There are five centuries of a Raoul de Faux, Jean de Faux, and Thomas de Faux, who were of the gentry, one of whom was a lord of Rochefort |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Faux" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 81.82% of the time. "Faux" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 81.82% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "faux" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Faux | Last name | 400 | 23,063 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "faux": faux pas ♦ make a faux pas. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "faux": faux-bois, faux-book, faux-bronze, faux-moralist, faux-naif, faux-pas. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
faux fur | 1,462 | faux wood window blind | 53 |
faux painting | 1,073 | faux fur fabric | 43 |
faux finish | 820 | faux hawk | 39 |
faux wood blind | 375 | faux virus | 37 |
faux painting technique | 310 | faux finish technique | 37 |
faux finishing | 293 | faux painter | 36 |
faux | 224 | faux effects | 35 |
faux finish painting | 177 | faux marble | 34 |
faux paint | 136 | faux stone wall | 33 |
faux rock | 129 | faux wall painting | 29 |
faux paint finish | 112 | faux boulder | 29 |
faux stone | 102 | faux fur throw | 28 |
faux stained glass | 93 | faux louis vuitton | 27 |
faux finish wall | 84 | fab faux | 27 |
faux fireplace | 79 | faux window | 26 |
faux brick | 79 | faux finishing school | 26 |
faux kung | 71 | faux fur coat | 25 |
faux pas | 66 | faux news | 25 |
faux jewelry | 66 | faux finish for furniture | 24 |
faux blind | 54 | faux finish school | 24 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "faux"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shkarje (creep, fault, faux pas, glissade, Miss, skid, slide, sliding, slip), proçkë (blunder, faux pas), hap i gabuar (false step, faux pas, misstep), gafë (balk, baulk, bloomer, blunder, Boner, faux pas, gaffe, gross fault, howler, slip). (various references) | |
Arabic | زلة (cringing, error, fault, faux pas, frailty, lapse, peccadillo, stumble). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гаф (boob, bungle, faux pas, floater, gaff, gaffe, infelicity, slip, snafu), нетактичност (atrocity, blazer, clumsiness, faux pas, tactlessness). (various references) | |
Chinese | 得罪 (say something that offends sb; have a faux pas). (various references) | |
Czech | omyl (error, fallibility, faux pas, lapse, Lapsus, oversight). (various references) | |
Finnish | kömmähdys (bloomer, blunder, boner, faux pas). (various references) | |
French | faux pas (false step, faux pas). (various references) | |
German | fauxpas (blunder, faux pas, gaffe, solecism), lapsus (faux pas, mistake, slip). (various references) | |
Greek | παραπάτημα (faux pas, misstep, stumble, trip), λάθοσ (error, faux pas, mistake), ατόπημα (faux-pas). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מש'" בע י י מוס (faux pas). (various references) | |
Hungarian | indiszkréció (breach of secrecy, faux pas). (various references) | |
Italian | gaffe (blunder, faux pas, gaffe). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | auxfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gafe (faux pas, gaffe). (various references) | |
Russian | ложный шаг (false step, faux pas, gaffe, mis-step). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pogrešan korak (false step, faux pas, gaffe, misstep, mis-step). (various references) | |
Spanish | falso paso (faux pas), metida de pata (faux pas, howler), coladura (faux pas, seepage, straining). (various references) | |
Swedish | felsteg (false step, faux pas, lapse, stumble), tabbe (bloomer, boner, boob, clinker, cock up, faux pas, gaffe, goof, howler, muff, slip), blamage (disgrace, faux pas). (various references) | |
Thai | การประพฤติผิ" (faux pas). (various references) | |
Turkish | pot kırmak (blunder, drop a brick, drop a clanger, flub, goof, make a blunder, make a boner, make a faux pas, speak out of turn), pot (atrocity, bloomer, blunder, Boner, break, clanger, contretemps, crease, faux pas, gaff, jackpot, kitty, pool, pot, stake), hata (balk, baulk, blemish, delinquency, demerit, error, failing, false step, falsity, fault, faux pas, flaw, floater, fluff, gaffe, goof, imperfection, inaccuracy, lapse, mistake, slip, slip up, stumble, trip, wrong, wrongness), gaf yapmak (blunder, disgrace oneself, drop a clanger, flub, goof, make a blunder, make a faux pas), gaf (atrocity, bloomer, blunder, Boner, break, bull, clanger, contretemps, faux pas, flub, gaff, gaffe, goof, howler, slip, slip of the tongue, slip up), çam devirmek (blunder, disgrace oneself, drop a brick, drop a clanger, make a boner, make a faux pas). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự lỗi lầm (faux pas), h nh động tếu (cap, faux pas). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "faux" (pronounced fô"ks) |
| 3 | -ô" k s | balks, chalks, flummox, hawks, squawks, stalks, talks, walks. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-u-x" | |
-1 letter: fax. | |
-2 letters: ax, fa, xu. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-u-x" | |
+2 letters: afflux. | |
+4 letters: affluxes, fabliaux, flexural, fluxgate, suffixal. | |
+5 letters: flambeaux, fluxgates, fluxional. | |
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