faggot
/ˈfæɡ.ət/
"faggot" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“faggot” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #15,406. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,406
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.)
Corpus desk
Index EN-faggot · faggot · English
faggot · rank #15,406 · 7 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,406
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH fascination
Nearest frequency peer: fascination (+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 “faggot”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- expressly
expressly
84,598 corpus weight
- fabrication
fabrication
84,597 corpus weight
- faggot
faggot
84,595 corpus weight
- fascination
fascination
84,594 corpus weight
- fir
fir
84,593 corpus weight
- foreigner
foreigner
84,592 corpus weight
What this shows “faggot” 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 | faggot |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfæɡ.ət/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,406 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “faggot”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around faggot (IPA /ˈfæɡ.ət/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,406 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 13 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for faggot, with forms such as "afggot", "faggott", and "faggto". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Fargo", "forgot", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English fagot, from Old French fagot (“bundle of sticks”), of uncertain origin. Unlikely from Old Occitan fagot or Italian fagotto, as these appear later than the Old French term. Compare also Italian fangotto and Spanish fajo (“bundle, wad”). P… The correct English form is faggot, spelled F-A-G-G-O-T.
Definition
- 1A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.)
- 2Burdensome baggage.
- 3A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding.
- 4A burning or smouldering piece of firewood.
- 5A meatball made with offcuts and offal, especially pork. (See Wikipedia.)
- 6A gay man, especially an effeminate one.
- 7A non-heterosexual man.
- 8A man considered effeminate.
- 9An annoying or inconsiderate person.
- 10A shrewish woman.
- 11A soldier numbered on the muster roll, but not really existing.
- 12A faggot voter.
- 13A lazy, weak, work-shy person.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faggot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the depth of, winter, however, a faggot of real French Sticks — although of little intrinsic value — may possibly enliven for a few moments an English Fireside.
Besides the logs and roots that simmered with turves and dung on the cottage fire, rapid heat for bread-making came from faggots - bundles of dry twigs about 4 ft long - which were fed into the oven, burned and then removed as ash before the dough went in.
Etymology
From Middle English fagot, from Old French fagot (“bundle of sticks”), of uncertain origin. Unlikely from Old Occitan fagot or Italian fagotto, as these appear later than the Old French term. Compare also Italian fangotto and Spanish fajo (“bundle, wad”). Perhaps from a diminutive of Vulgar Latin *facus, from Ancient Greek φάκελος (phákelos, “bundle of wood”). The senses relating to persons, though possibly originating as an extension of the sense "bundle of sticks" (compare baggage), may have been reinforced by fag, from fagging and/or by faygele, from Yiddish פֿייגעלע (feygele, “homosexual”, literally “little bird”), related to English fowl.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afggot
- faggott
- faggto
- fagogt
- fagot
- ffaggot
- fgagot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of faggot - 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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