fiend

/[fiːnd]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

fiend is aGermannoun. It means: die höchste Personifizierung des Übels, oft dargestellt als der Herrscher der Hölle, der Teufel, Satan Pronounced [fiːnd].

Key facts for fiend
PropertyValue
Headwordfiend
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[fiːnd]
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

fiend is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for fiend is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fiːnd]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for fiend in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is fiend, spelled F-I-E-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    die höchste Personifizierung des Übels, oft dargestellt als der Herrscher der Hölle, der Teufel, Satan
  2. 2
    böser Geist, Dämon
  3. 3
    eine teuflisch grausame, niederträchtige, gemeine, bösartige oder prinzipienlose Person
  4. 4
    eine Person, die extrem abhängig von einer fatalen, selbstzerstörerischen Gewohnheit ist oder regelmäßig Drogen nimmt, besonders illegale; ein Abhängiger, Drogensüchtiger, Junkie
  5. 5
    eine Person mit einer stark ausgeprägten Gewohnheit, Neigung oder einer Vorliebe für etwas; ein Enthusiast, Fan, Liebhaber
  6. 6
    eine Person, die Unfug treibt; eine Person oder eine Sache, die Verärgerung verursacht, Verdruß bereitet; ein Racker, Störenfried
  7. 7
    eine Person mit einem hohen Kenntnis-Stand oder einer überragenden Fähigkeit auf einem Gebiet; ein Ass, Virtuose, Meister

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fiend"?
"fiend" is spelled F-I-E-N-D. The IPA pronunciation is [fiːnd].
What does "fiend" mean?
As a noun, "fiend" means: die höchste Personifizierung des Übels, oft dargestellt als der Herrscher der Hölle, der Teufel, Satan
How do you pronounce "fiend"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fiend" is [fiːnd]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fiend" come from?
"fiend" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.