fjeld
/fjɛld/noun
fjeld is a noun meaning “A rocky, barren plateau, especially in Scandinavia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-J-E-L-D and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 78 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fjeld is fjelds.
What does fjeld mean?
noun
- 1
A rocky, barren plateau, especially in Scandinavia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fjeld?
- /fjɛld/
Fjeld has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fjeld
- fjelds plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fjeld?
Fjeld appears about once in every 78 million words in written English, the 279,513th 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).
Fjeld in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Rocky, barren plateau:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fjeld |
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 fjeld come from?
Borrowed from Danish fjeld. Doublet of fell.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).