fone
"fone" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fone” is uncommon English (frequency #78,608 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,608
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of foe
Corpus desk
Index EN-fone · fone · English
fone · rank #78,608 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,608
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH Fordyce
Nearest frequency peer: Fordyce (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “fone”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- fod
fod
21,397 corpus weight
- folktale
folktale
21,396 corpus weight
- fone
fone
21,393 corpus weight
- Fordyce
Fordyce
21,392 corpus weight
- foreseeing
foreseeing
21,391 corpus weight
- formalizati…
formalization
21,390 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “fone” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #78,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fone” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fone is uncommon English at frequency #78,608 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of foe".
fone has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is fone, spelled F-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1plural of foe
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Despair made some run headlong gainst their fone...
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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