featherless biped
/ˌfɛðələs ˈbaɪpɛd/
"featherless-biped" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“featherless biped” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A human being.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | featherless biped |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌfɛðələs ˈbaɪpɛd/ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “featherless biped” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for featherless biped is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌfɛðələs ˈbaɪpɛd/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A human being.".
Zero misspellings are on record for featherless biped in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the dialogue The Statesman by Plato (427–347 B.C.E.): “λέγω δὴ δεῖν τότε εὐθὺς τὸ πεζὸν τῷ δίποδι πρὸς τὸ τετράπουν γένος διανεῖμαι, κατιδόντα δὲ τἀνθρώπινον ἔτι μόνῳ τῷ πτηνῷ συνειληχὸς τὴν δίποδα ἀγέλην πάλιν τῷ ψιλῷ καὶ τῷ πτεροφυεῖ τέμνειν, […] [I … The correct English form is featherless biped, spelled F-E-A-T-H-E-R-L-E-S-S- -B-I-P-E-D.
Definition
- 1A human being.
Etymology
From the dialogue The Statesman by Plato (427–347 B.C.E.): “λέγω δὴ δεῖν τότε εὐθὺς τὸ πεζὸν τῷ δίποδι πρὸς τὸ τετράπουν γένος διανεῖμαι, κατιδόντα δὲ τἀνθρώπινον ἔτι μόνῳ τῷ πτηνῷ συνειληχὸς τὴν δίποδα ἀγέλην πάλιν τῷ ψιλῷ καὶ τῷ πτεροφυεῖ τέμνειν, […] [I say, then, that we ought at that time to have divided walking animals immediately into biped and quadruped, then seeing that the human race falls into the same division with the feathered creatures and no others, we must again divide the biped class into featherless and feathered, […]]”.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “featherless biped”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-E-A-T-H-E-R-L-E-S-S- -B-I-P-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˌfɛðələs ˈbaɪpɛd/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.