fevered
"fevered" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fevered” is uncommon English (frequency #62,140 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,140
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Affected by a fever; feverish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fevered · fevered · English
fevered · rank #62,140 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,140
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH Finkel
Nearest frequency peer: Finkel (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “fevered”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- faw
faw
37,866 corpus weight
- Feder
Feder
37,864 corpus weight
- Fennell
Fennell
37,863 corpus weight
- fevered
fevered
37,861 corpus weight
- Finkel
Finkel
37,860 corpus weight
- flava
flava
37,856 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “fevered” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fevered |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,140 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fevered” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fevered is uncommon English at frequency #62,140 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for fevered in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From fever + -ed. The correct English form is fevered, spelled F-E-V-E-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1Affected by a fever; feverish.
- 2Heated; impassioned; enthusiastic to the point of distraction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fevered appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Amid all the fevered anticipation of this fixture, few would have expected to witness an aesthetically pleasing example of the beautiful game.
To rephrase in less fevered rhetoric, a regional alliance might take shape independent of the U.S.
Etymology
From fever + -ed.
This word in other languages
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
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).