fecund
/ˈfɛk.ənd/
"fecund" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fecund” is uncommon English (frequency #98,110 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,110
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Highly fertile; able to produce offspring.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fecund · fecund · English
fecund · rank #98,110 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,110
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH Fawzi
Nearest frequency peer: Fawzi (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “fecund”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Farhadi
Farhadi
1,895 corpus weight
- Fawzi
Fawzi
1,892 corpus weight
- fecund
fecund
1,891 corpus weight
- ferrule
ferrule
1,887 corpus weight
- fiddlesticks
fiddlesticks
1,886 corpus weight
- filch
filch
1,885 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “fecund” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fecund |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈfɛk.ənd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #98,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fecund” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fecund is uncommon English at frequency #98,110 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈfɛk.ənd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
fecund doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle French fécond, from Latin fēcundus (“fertile”), which is related to fētus and fēmina (“woman”). The correct English form is fecund, spelled F-E-C-U-N-D.
Definition
- 1Highly fertile; able to produce offspring.
- 2Leading to new ideas or innovation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fecund appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The number of children per woman depends, as has been said, on biological and social factors which determine: (1) the frequency of births during a woman's fecund period, and (2) the portion of the fecund period--between puberty and menopause--effectively utilized for reproduction.
The druids […] believed that mistletoe could make barren animals fecund, and that it was an antidote to all poisons.
Etymology
From Middle French fécond, from Latin fēcundus (“fertile”), which is related to fētus and fēmina (“woman”).
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.
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