facsimile

Other forms of facsimile

plural

facsimiles·

past tense

facsimiled·

present participle

facsimiling·

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 facsimile

What does facsimile mean?

facsimile means "an exact copy or reproduction". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in facsimile?

facsimile has 4 syllables: fac-sim-i-le. The stress falls on "sim". In IPA it is /fækˈsɪməli/.

What is another word for facsimile?

Close synonyms include autotype, facsimile machine, fax, fax, telefax. 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 facsimile a common word?

facsimile is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.