# faerie

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #40,691

## Definitions
1. Archaic spelling of fairy.
2. Realm of the fays, fairyland.

## 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.

## Easily confused with
- **fare** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/faerie-vs-fare)
- **farce** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/faerie-vs-farce)
- **Favre** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/faerie-vs-favre)
- **Faroe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/faerie-vs-faroe)
- **fierce** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/faerie-vs-fierce)
- **Fergie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/faerie-vs-fergie)
- **fairies** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/faerie-vs-fairies)
- **facie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/facie-vs-faerie)
- **fabric** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fabric-vs-faerie)

## Common misspellings (7)
`aferie`, `faeire`, `faerei`, `faerrie`, `fareie`, `fearie`, `ffaerie`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/faerie