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say it: fawks
faux is an adjective meaning "not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article". It is pronounced /ˈfɔks/ — fawks. It carries one recorded sense.
not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article
“it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur”
“faux pearls”
“false teeth”
“decorated with imitation palm leaves”
“a purse of simulated alligator hide”
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 faux 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.