field glasses

noun

"field-glasses" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

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

Unranked
below top-frequency English
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - binoculars.

Key facts for field glasses
PropertyValue
Headwordfield glasses
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “field glasses” sits in English frequency

field glasses falls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

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

Rare enough to double-check

field glasses is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "binoculars.".

field glasses has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is field glasses, spelled F-I-E-L-D- -G-L-A-S-S-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    binoculars.

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 "field glasses"?
"field glasses" is spelled F-I-E-L-D- -G-L-A-S-S-E-S.
What does "field glasses" mean?
As a noun, "field glasses" means: binoculars.
What language does "field glasses" come from?
"field glasses" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Using “field glasses”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is F-I-E-L-D- -G-L-A-S-S-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list