feigns
/feɪnz/
"feigns" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“feigns” is uncommon English (frequency #89,352 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,352
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of feign
Corpus desk
Index EN-feigns · feigns · English
feigns · rank #89,352 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,352
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH feis
Nearest frequency peer: feis (+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 “feigns”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- fastness
fastness
10,653 corpus weight
- Fedorov
Fedorov
10,652 corpus weight
- Feeny
Feeny
10,651 corpus weight
- feigns
feigns
10,649 corpus weight
- feis
feis
10,648 corpus weight
- Fera
Fera
10,646 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “feigns” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feigns |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /feɪnz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,352 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “feigns” in English
Rare enough to double-check
feigns is uncommon English at frequency #89,352 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /feɪnz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of feign".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for feigns, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is feigns, spelled F-E-I-G-N-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of feign
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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