fas
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.04 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
plural of fa
name
name
name
Initialism of Free African Society.
Example Sentences
- "Not worth a fas"
- "In fact, 18 students in my class are under the FAS, compared to an average of four students in each of the other Primary Six classes."
- "FAS estimates Russia has 1,816 tactical, or non-strategic, weapons (shorter range and intended for use in battle rather than for the destruction of whole cities)."
- "She said people with FAS are on a spectrum, have a wide range of intelligences, that the intelligence test is biased, and that I got strong intuition and street smarts, that I’m smart where it counts, which I already knew, but when she told me it felt good, like I didn’t really know it until she said it like that."
Etymology
From Middle English fas, from Old English fæs.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: fas, fæs
Usage
- Obsolete
- American usage
- Uncountable
Inflected Forms
Phrases
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