famished
/ˈfæmɪʃt/
"famished" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“famished” is uncommon English (frequency #60,078 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,078
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of famish
Corpus desk
Index EN-famished · famished · English
famished · rank #60,078 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,078
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH fairyland
Nearest frequency peer: fairyland (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “famished”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- exfoliation
exfoliation
39,929 corpus weight
- exhalation
exhalation
39,928 corpus weight
- fairyland
fairyland
39,924 corpus weight
- famished
famished
39,923 corpus weight
- fencer
fencer
39,920 corpus weight
- Finlayson
Finlayson
39,917 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “famished” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | famished |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈfæmɪʃt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,078 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “famished” in English
Rare enough to double-check
famished is uncommon English at frequency #60,078 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈfæmɪʃt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of famish".
Zero misspellings are on record for famished in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Inflected forms. The correct English form is famished, spelled F-A-M-I-S-H-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of famish
Etymology
Inflected forms.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).