# field

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈfi(ː)ld/ · frequency rank #571

## Definitions
1. A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
2. A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
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.
4. A region containing a particular mineral.
5. An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
6. A place where competitive matches are carried out.
7. A place where competitive matches are carried out.
8. A place where competitive matches are carried out.
9. A place where competitive matches are carried out.
10. A place where competitive matches are carried out.
11. A place where competitive matches are carried out.
12. A place where competitive matches are carried out.
13. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
14. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
15. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
16. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
17. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
18. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
19. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
20. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
21. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
22. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
23. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
24. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
25. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
26. Archaic form of fielder.

## Etymology
From Middle English feeld, feld (“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).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots feld, feild (“field”), North Frisian fial, fälj (“field”), Saterland Frisian Fäild (“field”), West Frisian fjild (“field”), Dutch veld (“field”), German and Luxembourgish Feld (“field”), Vilamovian fald (“field”), Danish, Norwegian felt (“field”), Swedish fält (“field”), Finnish pelto (“field”), Asturian and Leonese platu (“plate”), Aragonese and Spanish plato (“plate”), Catalan plat (“plate”), French plat (“dish”), Galician, Mirandese, and Portuguese prato (“plate”), Italian piatto (“plate”), Latin *plattus (“flattened”), Greek πλατύς (platýs, “wide, broad”). Doublet of plate. Related also to Middle English flat (“flat”), Old English folde (“earth, land, territory”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”). More at flat, fold.
Not related to English felt.

## Easily confused with
- **fil** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/field-vs-fil)
- **find** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/field-vs-find)
- **film** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/field-vs-film)
- **file** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/field-vs-file)
- **fuel** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/field-vs-fuel)
- **fill** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/field-vs-fill)
- **Fred** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/field-vs-fred)
- **fled** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/field-vs-fled)
- **fixed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/field-vs-fixed)
- **fired** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/field-vs-fired)
- **filed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/field-vs-filed)
- **fried** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/field-vs-fried)
- **freed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/field-vs-freed)
- **fills** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/field-vs-fills)
- **fined** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/field-vs-fined)
- **fiery** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/field-vs-fiery)
- **Freud** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/field-vs-freud)
- **filly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/field-vs-filly)
- **fiend** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/field-vs-fiend)
- **friend** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/field-vs-friend)

## Common misspellings (6)
`feild`, `ffield`, `fiedl`, `fieldd`, `fielld`, `ifeld`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/field