faerie
noun
faerie is spelled F-A-E-R-I-E: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 40,703rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “faerie vs fairy” about 2,400 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, faerie means “Realm of the fays, fairyland” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of faerie is faeries or faëries.
How many letters and syllables are in faerie?
| Letters | 6: F-A-E-R-I-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 40,703rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How common is faerie?
Faerie appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 40,703rd 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 faerie
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: fairy.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of faerie
- faeries plural
- faërie
- faëries plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does faerie mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
archaicArchaic spelling of fairy.
- 2
Realm of the fays, fairyland.
noun
- 1
Alternative spelling of faerie.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does faerie come from?
A deliberately archaic spelling of fairy (attested since the 1300s in spellings like fairye, fayre), based on Old French faerie, used in 1590 by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).