Fez
[feːs]
The verdict
“Fez” is an uncommon German word, ranked #72,405 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #72,405
- frequency rank, German
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - orientalische Kopfbedeckung
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fez |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [feːs] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #72,405 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Fez” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Fez is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [feːs]. Corpus data places it at rank #72,405 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "orientalische Kopfbedeckung".
No misspelling variants are generated for Fez in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Fez, spelled F-E-Z.
Definition
- 1orientalische Kopfbedeckung
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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Using “Fez”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is F-E-Z - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [feːs] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.