Fareham
/ˈfɛəɹəm/
"fareham" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Fareham” is uncommon English (frequency #74,089 among 18,613 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,089
- frequency rank, English
- 18,613
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A town and borough in Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU578048).
Corpus desk
Index EN-fareham · Fareham · English
Fareham · rank #74,089 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,089
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 18,613
- PHOTO-FINISH felonious
Nearest frequency peer: felonious (+2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Fareham”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- exhume
exhume
25,917 corpus weight
- exuding
exuding
25,915 corpus weight
- Fareham
Fareham
25,912 corpus weight
- felonious
felonious
25,910 corpus weight
- Fenian
Fenian
25,909 corpus weight
- fibrin
fibrin
25,907 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Fareham” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fareham |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈfɛəɹəm/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,089 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Fareham” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Fareham is uncommon English at frequency #74,089 among 18,613 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈfɛəɹəm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Fareham in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Recorded as Ferneham in the Domesday Book, the placename derives from Old English fearn (“fern”) + hām (“homestead”). The correct English form is Fareham, spelled F-A-R-E-H-A-M.
Definition
- 1A town and borough in Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU578048).
- 2A habitational surname from Old English.
Etymology
Recorded as Ferneham in the Domesday Book, the placename derives from Old English fearn (“fern”) + hām (“homestead”).
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.