feu duty

noun

"feu-duty" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“feu duty” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
8
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Money payable by the tenant of a feu to the feudal superior.

Corpus desk

Index EN-feu-duty · feu duty · English

feu duty · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "F" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for feu duty
PropertyValue
Headwordfeu duty
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “feu duty” in English

feu dutyranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

feu duty is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Money payable by the tenant of a feu to the feudal superior.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for feu duty, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Etymologically, the entry records: From feu + duty. The correct English form is feu duty, spelled F-E-U- -D-U-T-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Money payable by the tenant of a feu to the feudal superior.

Etymology

From feu + duty.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "feu duty"?
"feu duty" is spelled F-E-U- -D-U-T-Y.
What does "feu duty" mean?
As a noun, "feu duty" means: Money payable by the tenant of a feu to the feudal superior.
What is the origin of the word "feu duty"?
From feu + duty. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list