feints
"feints" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“feints” is uncommon English (frequency #97,021 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,021
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The strong spirit produced at the beginning of distillation (strong feints, also foreshot), and the weak spirit produced at the end (weak feints, also tailings or tail).
Corpus desk
Index EN-feints · feints · English
feints · rank #97,021 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,021
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH farmworker
Nearest frequency peer: farmworker (-2 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 “feints”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- fagot
fagot
2,986 corpus weight
- fanfest
fanfest
2,983 corpus weight
- farmworker
farmworker
2,982 corpus weight
- feints
feints
2,980 corpus weight
- fettle
fettle
2,978 corpus weight
- filleted
filleted
2,976 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “feints” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feints |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “feints” in English
Rare enough to double-check
feints is uncommon English at frequency #97,021 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The strong spirit produced at the beginning of distillation (strong feints, also foreshot), and the weak spirit produced at the end (weak feints, also tailings or tail).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for feints in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is feints, spelled F-E-I-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1The strong spirit produced at the beginning of distillation (strong feints, also foreshot), and the weak spirit produced at the end (weak feints, also tailings or tail).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how feints appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A low-wines still's distilling power cannot be ascertained by the actual bulk of the distillates in strong and weak feints and spirits obtained in a given time, […].
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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