farrier
/ˈfæɹi.ə/
"farrier" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“farrier” is uncommon English (frequency #65,877 among 18,613 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,877
- frequency rank, English
- 18,613
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A person who maintains the health and balance of horses' feet through the trimming of the hoofs and fitting of horseshoes.
Corpus desk
Index EN-farrier · farrier · English
farrier · rank #65,877 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,877
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 18,613
- PHOTO-FINISH fatness
Nearest frequency peer: fatness (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “farrier”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- expeditious
expeditious
34,128 corpus weight
- expressiven…
expressiveness
34,127 corpus weight
- Fareed
Fareed
34,126 corpus weight
- farrier
farrier
34,124 corpus weight
- fatness
fatness
34,123 corpus weight
- fayre
fayre
34,121 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “farrier” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | farrier |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfæɹi.ə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,877 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “farrier” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
farrier is uncommon English at frequency #65,877 among 18,613 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈfæɹi.ə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person who maintains the health and balance of horses' feet through the trimming of the hoofs and fitting of horseshoes.".
Zero misspellings are on record for farrier in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Middle French ferrier, from Old French ferrier, from Latin ferrārius, from ferrum (“iron”). The correct English form is farrier, spelled F-A-R-R-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1A person who maintains the health and balance of horses' feet through the trimming of the hoofs and fitting of horseshoes.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French ferrier, from Old French ferrier, from Latin ferrārius, from ferrum (“iron”).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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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.