faculty

Other forms of faculty

plural

faculties·

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 faculty

What does faculty mean?

faculty means "one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in faculty?

faculty has 3 syllables: fac-ul-ty. The stress falls on "fac". In IPA it is /ˈfækəlti/.

What is another word for faculty?

Close synonyms include mental faculty, module, staff. 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 faculty a common word?

faculty 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.