faerie
"faerie" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“faerie” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #40,691. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,691
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Archaic spelling of fairy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-faerie · faerie · English
faerie · rank #40,691 · 7 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,691
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH extractor
Nearest frequency peer: extractor (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “faerie”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- excision
excision
59,314 corpus weight
- exogenous
exogenous
59,313 corpus weight
- expandable
expandable
59,312 corpus weight
- extractor
extractor
59,311 corpus weight
- faerie
faerie
59,310 corpus weight
- faulted
faulted
59,309 corpus weight
What this shows “faerie” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faerie |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #40,691 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “faerie”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around faerie, anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,691 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for faerie, with forms such as "aferie", "faeire", and "faerei". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "fare", "farce", "Favre", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: 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. The correct English form is faerie, spelled F-A-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Archaic spelling of fairy.
- 2Realm of the fays, fairyland.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how faerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
All these stories are based upon the classic structure of the faerie tale and are highly enjoyable (and, yes, they end "happily ever after"). But they can provide much more than that.
Etymology
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.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aferie
- faeire
- faerei
- faerrie
- fareie
- fearie
- ffaerie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of faerie - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "faerie", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).