faulty

Other forms of faulty

comparative or superlative

faultier

comparative or superlative

faultiest

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 faulty

What does faulty mean?

faulty means "having a defect". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in faulty?

faulty has 2 syllables: faul-ty. The stress falls on "faul". In IPA it is /ˈfɔlti/.

What is another word for faulty?

Close synonyms include defective, incorrect, wrong. 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 faulty a common word?

faulty 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.