FAQ

See also: faq

English

Alternative forms

• faq

Etymology

Initialism of frequently asked questions.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˌɛf.eɪˈkjuː/, /fæk/, /ˈfʌkjuː/
• Rhymes: -uː or Rhymes: -æk

• Audio (Canada):

  (file)

Noun

FAQ (plural FAQs)

1. (Internet) A list of questions said to be frequently asked, and their answers.

   This site's FAQ says you should log in to access some pages.

   • 2023 January, Meg Roser, Charlotte Chalker and Tim Squirrell, “Spitting out the blackpill: Evaluating how incels present themselves in their own words on the incel Wiki”, in Institute for Strategic Dialogue‎^[1], page 10:

     For example, the FAQ page comments that ‘the term “incel” is an abbreviated version and sniglonym of the term “involuntary celibacy,” whose usage reaches back at least to the 18th century.”’ The term ‘sniglonym’ is itself an example of deploying verbose language. The word refers to a term whose date of coinage postdates the pre-existing concept or object it defines.

   • 2025 April 17, Joseph Cox, “Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People”, in 404 Media‎^[2], archived from the original on 17 April 2025:

     The internal communications also show Palantir leadership preparing for a potential backlash from employees or outsiders, with them writing FAQs that can be sent to friends or family that start to ask about Palantir’s work with ICE. […] In the leaked Slack messages, Jain said that Palantir was working to include updates about this work into an FAQ with the company’s PCL, or Privacy and Civil Liberties team.

2. (video games) A document that details how to play and win a video game; a strategy guide.

Translations

acronym for Frequently Asked Questions

• Afrikaans: VVV
• Armenian: ՀՏՀ (HTH)
• Catalan: PMF (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 常見問題 / 常见问题 (zh) (chángjiàn wèntí), 問答集 / 问答集 (zh) (wèndájí)

• Czech: ČKD (cs), ČKO (cs)
• Esperanto: OD
• Estonian: KKK
• Finnish: UKK (fi)
• French: FAQ (fr) f
• Galician: preguntas frecuentes
• Georgian: ხ.დ.კ. (x.d.ḳ.), ხშირად დასმული შეკითხვები (xširad dasmuli šeḳitxvebi)
• German: FAQ (de) f (pl. FAQ, FAQs), HGF (häufig gestellte Fragen)
• Hungarian: GYIK (hu)
• Japanese: よくあるご質問 (yoku aru go-shitsumon)
• Korean: 자주 묻는 질문 (jaju munneun jilmun)
• Macedonian: ЧПП (mk) (ČPP)
• Malay: soalan lazim
• Portuguese: FAQ (pt) m
• Russian: ЧАВО́ (ru) m pl (ČAVÓ), ЧаВо́ (ru) m pl (ČaVó), ча́сто задава́емые вопро́сы (částo zadavájemyje voprósy), вопро́сы и отве́ты (voprósy i otvéty)
• Scottish Gaelic: CÀBHA
• Spanish: PUF f pl, FAQ
• Tamil: விவிமா (vivimā), வினா விடை மாலை (ta) (viṉā viṭai mālai)
• Tigrinya: ብሕ (bəḥ)
• Turkish: SSS (tr)
• Ukrainian: ЧаП (ČaP), ПоП (PoP), часті питання (časti pytannja), постійні питання (postijni pytannja), поширені питання (pošyreni pytannja)

See also

• RTFM

Anagrams

• qāf

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English FAQ, then backronymed to French foire aux questions.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ.fa.ky/ ~ /e.fa.ky/, /fak/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Noun

FAQ f (invariable)

1. FAQ (foire aux questions)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English FAQ.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfak/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfak/

Noun

FAQ m (plural FAQs)

1. (Internet) FAQ (webpage containing questions and answers about the website)

Further reading

• “FAQ”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “FAQ”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026