feng
"feng" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“feng” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #17,138. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,138
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of fum (“fabulous Chinese bird”).
Corpus desk
Index EN-feng · feng · English
feng · rank #17,138 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,138
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH fender
Nearest frequency peer: fender (-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 “feng”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- familiarity
familiarity
82,866 corpus weight
- Felipe
Felipe
82,865 corpus weight
- fender
fender
82,864 corpus weight
- feng
feng
82,863 corpus weight
- Ferris
Ferris
82,862 corpus weight
- fetal
fetal
82,861 corpus weight
What this shows “feng” 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 | feng |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #17,138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “feng”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around feng, anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,138 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Alternative form of fum (“fabulous Chinese bird”).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for feng, with forms such as "efng", "fegn", and "fengg". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FN", "few", "fun", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is feng, spelled F-E-N-G.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of fum (“fabulous Chinese bird”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how feng appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In China, the phoenix is known as the Feng-huang; in its "feng" aspect it is a male, solar sybol, while as "huang", it is a female and lunar, making it an embodiment of the union of yin and yang.
One of them would be chosen by the ancient chimera bird, Feng-Huang, which resided atop of the mighty Kunlun mountain range of which Bayan Har Shan formed part. These mountains, which Ji Shi had reportedly sprung from, seemed to be a hotbed of supernatural activity. The legendary bird had a male aspect, Feng, and a female aspect, Huang, and presided over…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efng
- fegn
- fengg
- fenng
- ffeng
- fneg
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of feng - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "feng", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).