# Freud

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /fɹɔɪd/ · frequency rank #15,616

## Definitions
1. A surname from German.
2. Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist, psychotherapist, and founder of psychoanalysis.

## Easily confused with
- **Frey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/freud-vs-frey)
- **fried** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/freud-vs-fried)
- **Freya** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/freud-vs-freya)
- **friend** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/freud-vs-friend)
- **fed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fed-vs-freud)
- **feu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feu-vs-freud)
- **free** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/free-vs-freud)
- **feed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feed-vs-freud)
- **Fred** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fred-vs-freud)
- **fled** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fled-vs-freud)
- **feud** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feud-vs-freud)
- **fret** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fret-vs-freud)
- **fend** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fend-vs-freud)
- **Frau** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/frau-vs-freud)
- **field** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/field-vs-freud)
- **fresh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fresh-vs-freud)
- **fired** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fired-vs-freud)
- **fraud** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fraud-vs-freud)
- **freak** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/freak-vs-freud)
- **freed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/freed-vs-freud)

## Common misspellings (7)
`ferud`, `ffreud`, `fredu`, `freudd`, `frreud`, `frued`, `rfeud`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/freud