freind
"freind" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“freind” is uncommon English (frequency #84,269 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,269
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Misspelling of friend.
Corpus desk
Index EN-freind · freind · English
freind · rank #84,269 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,269
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH Frenchies
Nearest frequency peer: Frenchies (+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 “freind”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- fortes
fortes
15,736 corpus weight
- fpm
fpm
15,734 corpus weight
- freind
freind
15,732 corpus weight
- Frenchies
Frenchies
15,731 corpus weight
- frugally
frugally
15,730 corpus weight
- fruitlessly
fruitlessly
15,729 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “freind” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | freind |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,269 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “freind” in English
Rare enough to double-check
freind is uncommon English at frequency #84,269 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Misspelling of friend.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for freind, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is freind, spelled F-R-E-I-N-D.
Definition
- 1Misspelling of friend.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how freind appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
If he [Pope Stephen II] were a freind herein to Monarchy I know not, but to the Monarch I need not aske what he was. Having thus made Pepin [the Short] his faſt freind, he cals him into Italy againſt Aiſtulphus the Lombard, […]
They were exceedingly handsome and so much alike, that it was not every one who knew them apart.—Nay even their most intimate freinds had nothing to distinguish them by, but the shape of the face, the colour of the Eye, the length of the Nose & the difference of the complexion. Elfrida had an intimate freind to whom, being on a visit to an Aunt, she wrote…
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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