fealty
/ˈfiː.əlti/
"fealty" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fealty” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #44,778. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,778
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fidelity to one's lord or master; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fealty · fealty · English
fealty · rank #44,778 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,778
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH fastidious
Nearest frequency peer: fastidious (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “fealty”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Falstaff
Falstaff
55,228 corpus weight
- FANBOYS
FANBOYS
55,226 corpus weight
- fastidious
fastidious
55,224 corpus weight
- fealty
fealty
55,223 corpus weight
- Fido
Fido
55,220 corpus weight
- filial
filial
55,219 corpus weight
What this shows “fealty” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fealty |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfiː.əlti/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #44,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “fealty”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around fealty (IPA /ˈfiː.əlti/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,778 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Fidelity to one's lord or master; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for fealty, with forms such as "efalty", "faelty", and "feallty". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "felt", "feat", "feast", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English feaute, feute, from Anglo-Norman fëauté, fëuté, from Latin fidēlitās (“faithfulness”; “homage, fealty” in Medieval Latin), from fidēlis (“faithful”) + -tās (noun suffix); the modern form (for expected *feauty /ˈfjuːti/) is due … The correct English form is fealty, spelled F-E-A-L-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Fidelity to one's lord or master; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fealty appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I doubt whether the most devoted fidelity would bear strict examination as to the short reposes even the most entire fealty permits itself.
And yet the war has come, full of double-crossing, internecine accusations of lying and incompetence, and a bitter cleavage into factions over the question of how much fealty should be shown to President Trump — and the extent to which Republicans should amplify his false argument that the election in this fast-changing Southern state was stolen from him.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English feaute, feute, from Anglo-Norman fëauté, fëuté, from Latin fidēlitās (“faithfulness”; “homage, fealty” in Medieval Latin), from fidēlis (“faithful”) + -tās (noun suffix); the modern form (for expected *feauty /ˈfjuːti/) is due to learned influence. Equivalent to obsolete feal + -ty. Doublet of fidelity.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efalty
- faelty
- feallty
- fealtty
- fealtyy
- fealyt
- featly
- felaty
- ffealty
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fealty - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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