fiefs
/fiːfs/
"fiefs" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fiefs” is uncommon English (frequency #75,872 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,872
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of fief
Corpus desk
Index EN-fiefs · fiefs · English
fiefs · rank #75,872 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,872
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH Figueres
Nearest frequency peer: Figueres (+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 “fiefs”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Fahim
Fahim
24,135 corpus weight
- Farwell
Farwell
24,132 corpus weight
- fiefs
fiefs
24,129 corpus weight
- Figueres
Figueres
24,128 corpus weight
- fiori
fiori
24,127 corpus weight
- flatware
flatware
24,125 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “fiefs” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fiefs |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fiːfs/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,872 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fiefs” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fiefs is uncommon English at frequency #75,872 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /fiːfs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of fief".
No generated misspelling entries exist for fiefs in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is fiefs, spelled F-I-E-F-S.
Definition
- 1plural of fief
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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