fees

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The verdict

“fees” is uncommon German (frequency #86,460 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#86,460
frequency rank, German
3,474
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs fee

Corpus desk

Index DE-fees · fees · German

fees · rank #86,460 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #86,460
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,474
  • PHOTO-FINISH feg

Nearest frequency peer: feg (+1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „fees“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „fees“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for fees
PropertyValue
Headwordfees
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters4
Frequency rank#86,460
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „fees“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.feesfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „feg“ (#86,461), „Federball“ (#86,458), „Fehlbetrag“ (#86,462). Unter 3,474 „F“-Lemmata liegt „fees“ bei #86,460. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

fees is uncommon German at frequency #86,460 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs fee".

Zero misspellings are on record for fees in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is fees, spelled F-E-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plural des Substantivs fee

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fees"?
"fees" is spelled F-E-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "fees" mean?
As a noun, "fees" means: Plural des Substantivs fee
How do you pronounce "fees"?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fees", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

GABA#86,500ELGA#86,416gees#86,512GPRS#86,549

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list