fie
/faɪ/obsolete
fie is an interjection meaning “Sometimes followed by on or upon: used to express distaste, disgust, or outrage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-E and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does fie mean?
interjection
- 1
archaicSometimes followed by on or upon: used to express distaste, disgust, or outrage.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fie?
- /faɪ/
Fie has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-fie.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fie
- fy
- fye
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fie?
Fie appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,947th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Words people confuse with fie
Sounds like: phi (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: fy.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Fie in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense used to express distaste, disgust, or outrage:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does fie come from?
From Middle English fy, from Old French fi, from Latin fī. (with a possible additional influence from Old Norse). Compare Swedish fy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).