fada
/ˈfɑːdə/
"fada" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fada” is uncommon English (frequency #99,248 among 18,613 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,248
- frequency rank, English
- 18,613
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The acute accent as used in Irish orthography to mark a long vowel.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fada |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfɑːdə/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #99,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fada” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
fada is uncommon English at frequency #99,248 among 18,613 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈfɑːdə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The acute accent as used in Irish orthography to mark a long vowel.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fada, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Irish fada (“long”). The correct English form is fada, spelled F-A-D-A.
Definition
- 1The acute accent as used in Irish orthography to mark a long vowel.
Etymology
Borrowed from Irish fada (“long”).
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “fada”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-A-D-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.