feu
[fø]
The verdict
“feu” is uncommon German (frequency #68,212 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,212
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Feuer
Corpus desk
Index DE-feu · feu · German
feu · rank #68,212 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,212
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH fet
Nearest frequency peer: fet (-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 „feu“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Feigenblatt
Feigenblatt
31,793 corpus weight
- fesche
fesche
31,792 corpus weight
- festgebunden
festgebunden
31,791 corpus weight
- fet
fet
31,790 corpus weight
- feu
feu
31,789 corpus weight
- filmisch
filmisch
31,786 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „feu“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feu |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fø] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #68,212 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „feu“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
feu is uncommon German at frequency #68,212 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [fø]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Feuer".
feu has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is feu, spelled F-E-U.
Definition
- 1Feuer
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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