fele
obsolete
fele is an adverb meaning “greatly, much, very” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-L-E, and it appears about once in every 43 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does fele mean?
adverb
- 1
obsoletegreatly, much, very
adjective
- 1
obsoletemuch; many.
So fele shippes this yere there ware / That moch losse for vnfreyght they bare. So fele ships this year there were / that much loss for unfreight they bore.
pronoun
- 1
obsoletemany (of).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fele
- feel
- feele
- fell
- feler comparative
- felest superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fele?
Fele appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd 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).
Where does fele come from?
From Middle English fele, from Old English feola, fela (“much, many, very”), from Proto-West Germanic *felu, from Proto-Germanic *felu (“very, much”), from Proto-Indo-European *pélh₁u (“many”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).