facade

Other forms of facade

plural

facades·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about facade

What does facade mean?

facade means "the face or front of a building". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in facade?

facade has 2 syllables: fa-cade. The stress falls on "cade". In IPA it is /fəˈsɑd/.

What is another word for facade?

Close synonyms include frontage, frontal, window dressing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is facade a common word?

facade is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with facade?

1 word rhymes with facade. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.