cabin fever
"cabin-fever" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cabin fever” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A condition of restlessness and irritability caused by being in a confined space.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cabin-fever · cabin fever · English
cabin fever · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabin fever |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cabin fever” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cabin fever is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cabin fever doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: In the current sense coined or popularized in a novel of the same name in 1918. See cite below. The correct English form is cabin fever, spelled C-A-B-I-N- -F-E-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1A condition of restlessness and irritability caused by being in a confined space.
- 2Typhus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cabin fever appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Some residents of Alaska suffer from cabin fever when they remain indoors throughout the long, snowy winters.
Just as the body fed too long upon meat becomes a prey to that horrid disease called scurvy, so the mind fed too long upon monotony succumbs to the insidious mental ailment which the West calls "cabin fever."
Etymology
In the current sense coined or popularized in a novel of the same name in 1918. See cite below.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.