fowls
/faʊlz/
"fowls" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fowls” is uncommon English (frequency #76,781 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,781
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of fowl
Corpus desk
Index EN-fowls · fowls · English
fowls · rank #76,781 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,781
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH flouted
Nearest frequency peer: flouted (-2 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 “fowls”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- FBC
FBC
23,228 corpus weight
- felted
felted
23,227 corpus weight
- Flournoy
Flournoy
23,223 corpus weight
- flouted
flouted
23,222 corpus weight
- fowls
fowls
23,220 corpus weight
- frisked
frisked
23,216 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “fowls” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fowls |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /faʊlz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,781 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fowls” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fowls is uncommon English at frequency #76,781 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /faʊlz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of fowl".
fowls doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is fowls, spelled F-O-W-L-S.
Definition
- 1plural of fowl
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).