fatigues
/fəˈtiːɡz/
"fatigues" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fatigues” is uncommon English (frequency #51,106 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,106
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of fatigue
Corpus desk
Index EN-fatigues · fatigues · English
fatigues · rank #51,106 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,106
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH Farquhar
Nearest frequency peer: Farquhar (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “fatigues”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- explainer
explainer
48,902 corpus weight
- expressioni…
expressionist
48,901 corpus weight
- Farquhar
Farquhar
48,897 corpus weight
- fatigues
fatigues
48,895 corpus weight
- feverishly
feverishly
48,891 corpus weight
- fibreglass
fibreglass
48,889 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “fatigues” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fatigues |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fəˈtiːɡz/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fatigues” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fatigues is uncommon English at frequency #51,106 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /fəˈtiːɡz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of fatigue".
No generated misspelling entries exist for fatigues in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is fatigues, spelled F-A-T-I-G-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of fatigue
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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