feigned
/ˈfeɪnd/adjective, verb
feigned is spelled F-E-I-G-N-E-D: 7 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 44,209th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, feigned means “Being a pretense, simulation, or counterfeit, or something false or fraudulent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in feigned?
| Letters | 7: F-E-I-G-N-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 44,209th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is feigned?
Feigned appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 44,209th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce feigned?
- /ˈfeɪnd/
Feigned has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-AnotherFriendlyHuman-feigned.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with feigned?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as feigned.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: feeding.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does feigned mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Being a pretense, simulation, or counterfeit, or something false or fraudulent.
I have discovered that a feigned familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less. For great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them. So the fisher provides bait for the tr
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of feign
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).