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farriery

/ˈfɛɹi.ə.ɹi/noun

farriery is a noun meaning “The work done by a farrier” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-R-R-I-E-R-Y, and it appears about once in every 58 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of farriery is farrieries.

What does farriery mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The work done by a farrier.

  2. 2

    A farrier's workshop.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce farriery?

  • US /ˈfɛɹi.ə.ɹi/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of farriery

  • farrieries plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is farriery?

Farriery appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Farriery in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchmaréchalerie (the work done by a farrier)
GermanHufschmiedearbeit, Hufbeschlag (the work done by a farrier), Hufschmiede (a farrier's workshop)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does farriery come from?

From farrier + -y.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).