foolery
/ˈfuːləɹi/
"foolery" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“foolery” is uncommon English (frequency #99,273 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,273
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Foolish behaviour or speech.
Corpus desk
Index EN-foolery · foolery · English
foolery · rank #99,273 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,273
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH flyway
Nearest frequency peer: flyway (-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 “foolery”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- flaxen
flaxen
735 corpus weight
- fleabag
fleabag
734 corpus weight
- fleshly
fleshly
733 corpus weight
- flyway
flyway
729 corpus weight
- foolery
foolery
728 corpus weight
- fornicate
fornicate
726 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “foolery” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foolery |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfuːləɹi/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #99,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “foolery” in English
Rare enough to double-check
foolery is uncommon English at frequency #99,273 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈfuːləɹi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Foolish behaviour or speech.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for foolery, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English foleri, ffollery, equivalent to fool + -ery. The correct English form is foolery, spelled F-O-O-L-E-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Foolish behaviour or speech.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how foolery appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
So from that tyme forwarde I began to ſmell the word of god, and forſoke the ſchole doctors and ſuch foolries.
Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines every where.
Etymology
From Middle English foleri, ffollery, equivalent to fool + -ery.
Synonyms
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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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