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fiend

/ˈfiːnd/noun, verb

fiend is spelled F-I-E-N-D: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,367th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, fiend means “A devil or demon; a malignant or diabolical being; an evil spirit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of fiend is fiends.

How many letters and syllables are in fiend?

Letters5: F-I-E-N-D
Syllables1
In writing1.3 times per million words; the 25,367th 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 fiend?

Fiend appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,367th 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 fiend?

  • /ˈfiːnd/
  • [ˈfɪi̯nd]
  • /fɛnd/

Fiend has one syllable.

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

What rhymes with fiend?

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

Spelled with the same letters in another order: endif, defin, indef.

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 fiend

  • fiends plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • fend
  • fiending participle, present
  • fiended participle, past

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

What does fiend mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A devil or demon; a malignant or diabolical being; an evil spirit.

  2. 2

    A very evil person.

  3. 3

    obsoleteAn enemy; a foe.

    We waited for our fiend to arrive.

  4. 4

    archaicThe enemy of mankind, specifically, the Devil; Satan.

  5. 5

    informalAn addict or fanatic.

    dope fiend

verb

  1. 1

    slangTo yearn; to be desperate.

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

Fiend in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchdémon, diable (demon), monstre (very evil person), addict, accro (addict, fanatic)
GermanDämon, Dämonin, böser Geist (demon), Teufel, Monster, Ungeheuer (very evil person)
Portuguesedemónio, demônio, diabo (demon)
Spanishdiablillo (demon), malvado (very evil person)

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 fiend come from?

From Middle English fend, feend (“enemy; demon”), from Old English fēond (“enemy”), Proto-West Germanic *fijand, from Proto-Germanic *fijandz.

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

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