federal
/ˈfɛdəɹəl/
"federal" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“federal” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #768. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #768
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations.
Corpus desk
Index EN-federal · federal · English
federal · rank #768 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #768
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH fast
Nearest frequency peer: fast (-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 “federal”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- eat
eat
99,236 corpus weight
- fall
fall
99,235 corpus weight
- fast
fast
99,234 corpus weight
- federal
federal
99,233 corpus weight
- feeling
feeling
99,232 corpus weight
- felt
felt
99,231 corpus weight
What this shows “federal” 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 | federal |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈfɛdəɹəl/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #768 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “federal”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around federal (IPA /ˈfɛdəɹəl/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #768 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for federal, with forms such as "efderal", "fdeeral", and "fedderal". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "feral", "fedora", "funeral", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French fédéral, from Latin stem foeder- of foedus (“covenant, league, treaty, alliance”). The correct English form is federal, spelled F-E-D-E-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations.
- 2Pertaining to the national government level in a federal nation, as opposed to state, provincial, county, city, or town.
- 3Relating to covenantalism.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how federal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Yet the Romans, taking them [the Carthaginians] at an Advantage, vvhen they vvere in Streights; compell'd them, contrary to all Fœderal Right and Juſtice, by Nevv Articles, both to part with Sardinia, their Lavvful Territory, and alſo to pay them for the future, a Double Tribute.
That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare, that it views the powers of the federal government as resulting from the compact to which the states are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; [...]
Etymology
From French fédéral, from Latin stem foeder- of foedus (“covenant, league, treaty, alliance”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efderal
- fdeeral
- fedderal
- fedearl
- federall
- federla
- federral
- fedreal
- feedral
- ffederal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of federal - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
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