feoffee
/fɛˈfiː/noun
feoffee is a noun meaning “A vassal holding a fief” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-O-F-F-E-E, and it appears about once in every 87 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of feoffee is feoffees.
What does feoffee mean?
noun
- 1
A vassal holding a fief.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce feoffee?
- /fɛˈfiː/
- /ˈfɛfi/
- /fiːˈfiː/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-feoffee.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-feoffee2.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of feoffee
- feoffees plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is feoffee?
Feoffee appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd 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 feoffee come from?
From feoff + -ee (“(object)”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).