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field

/ˈfi(ː)ld/noun, verb

field is spelled F-I-E-L-D: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 174 times per million words in written English, the 576th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, field means “A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of field is fields.

How many letters and syllables are in field?

Letters5: F-I-E-L-D
Syllables1
In writing174 times per million words; the 576th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is field?

Field appears 174 times per million words in written English, the 576th 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).

How do you pronounce field?

  • /ˈfi(ː)ld/
  • [ˈfɪi̯ɫd]
  • /ˈfi(ː)ʊ̯d/

Field has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-field.ogg, En-au-field.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with field?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as field.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: felid.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of field

  • fields plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • fielding participle, present
  • fielded participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does field mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.

    There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.

  2. 2

    The open country near or belonging to a town or city.

  3. 3

    A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.

    There were some cows grazing in a field.

  4. 4

    When coupled with a number (e.g. two-field) used to define types of crop rotation, denoting the number of different crop types (and possibly fallow) that are used.

  5. 5

    A region containing a particular mineral.

    an oil field; a gold field

  6. 6

    An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.

  7. 7

    A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.

  8. 8

    An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.

    soccer field

verb

  1. 1

    To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.

  2. 2

    To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.

    The blue team are fielding first, while the reds are batting.

  3. 3

    To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.

    The away team fielded two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.

  4. 4

    To answer; to address.

    She will field questions immediately after her presentation.

  5. 5

    To execute research (in the field).

    He fielded the marketing survey about the upcoming product.

  6. 6

    To deploy in the field.

    to field a new land-mine detector

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate field?

Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of field: fld, fld..

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Field in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchchamp (land area free of woodland, cities, and towns…), terrain (sports: area reserved for playing a game), corps (mathematics (algebra): a commutative ring…), attraper (intercept or catch)
GermanFeld, Gefilde, Heide, Heideland, Flur, fald (land area free of woodland, cities, and towns…)
Portuguesecampo (land area free of woodland, cities, and towns…), interceptar, apanhar (intercept or catch), terreno (wide, open space used to grow crops or to hold…), posicionar (to place in a playing field)
Spanishcampo, agro (land area free of woodland, cities, and towns…), chacra, chácara, chagra (wide, open space used to grow crops or to hold…), desplegar (to place in a battle field)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does field come from?

From Middle English feld, feeld (“field”), from Old English feld (“field”), from Proto-West Germanic *felþu (“field”), from Proto-Germanic *felþuz (“field”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“field, plain”) or *pleth₂- (“flat”) (with schwebeablaut).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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