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say it: fakt
fact is a noun meaning "a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred
“first you must collect all the facts of the case”
a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened
“he supported his argument with an impressive array of facts”
an event known to have happened or something known to have existed
“your fears have no basis in fact”
“how much of the story is fact and how much fiction is hard to tell”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fact come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.