in fact
/ɪnˈfækt/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.40 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep_phrase
Example Sentences
- "People think he's rich, but in fact he's nearly penniless."
- "Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so."
- "A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair."
- "Menggetimur (d. 1433),¹⁸ chief of the Odoli subtribe of the Chien-chou Jurchen, had in fact moved into Korea south of the Tumen River. Because he offered tribute to the Choson court and had encamped at Hoeryŏng (Chinese: Hui-ning), the Koreans regarded him as their vassal."
- "We tend to think of the seafloor a few kilometres down as a flat plain. In fact, about two-thirds of this “abyssal” seabed is made up of gentle rolling hills a few hundred metres high, says Jennifer Durden at the University of Southampton, UK."
- "I don't have the time or patience to deal with him. In fact, I barely even have time for being here at all."
Etymology
Frequently Paired Words
in law
de jure