feo
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The verdict
“feo” is uncommon German (frequency #83,953 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,953
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - hässlich
Corpus desk
Index DE-feo · feo · German
feo · rank #83,953 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,953
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Feindesland
Nearest frequency peer: Feindesland (-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 „feo“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Fehlschläge
Fehlschläge
16,051 corpus weight
- Feierabendb…
Feierabendbier
16,050 corpus weight
- Feindesland
Feindesland
16,049 corpus weight
- feo
feo
16,048 corpus weight
- Feuerland
Feuerland
16,046 corpus weight
- fille
fille
16,044 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „feo“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feo |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #83,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „feo“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
feo is uncommon German at frequency #83,953 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for feo, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is feo, spelled F-E-O.
Definition
- 1hässlich
- 2unangenehm
- 3schändlich
- 4schlecht aussehen
Antonyms
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.
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