Also means
wrong
Usage Note
Faux is the masculine form; the feminine is fausse (fohs). It covers both deliberate fakery ('un faux billet' - a counterfeit bill) and simple factual error ('c'est faux' - that's wrong). The phrase faux ami ('false friend') describes words that look similar between languages but mean different things.
Examples
"Ce tableau est un faux célèbre."
Natural Translation
This painting is a famous fake.
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