Freyja
/ˈfɹeɪə/
"freyja" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Freyja” is uncommon English (frequency #92,623 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,623
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A deity among the Vanir associated with sex, death, and seiðr, who receives half of those who die in battle in the afterlife field Fólkvangr (the other half going to Odin's hall, Valhalla), and who...
Corpus desk
Index EN-freyja · Freyja · English
Freyja · rank #92,623 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,623
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH friable
Nearest frequency peer: friable (+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 “Freyja”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- forensically
forensically
7,383 corpus weight
- fovea
fovea
7,382 corpus weight
- Freyja
Freyja
7,378 corpus weight
- friable
friable
7,377 corpus weight
- Frommer
Frommer
7,375 corpus weight
- fundus
fundus
7,374 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Freyja” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Freyja |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈfɹeɪə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,623 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Freyja” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Freyja is uncommon English at frequency #92,623 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈfɹeɪə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A deity among the Vanir associated with sex, death, and seiðr, who receives half of those who die in battle in the afterlife field Fólkvangr (the other half going to Odin's hall, Valhalla), and who...".
Zero misspellings are on record for Freyja in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Old Norse Freyja, from freyja (“lady”), from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ. The correct English form is Freyja, spelled F-R-E-Y-J-A.
Definition
- 1A deity among the Vanir associated with sex, death, and seiðr, who receives half of those who die in battle in the afterlife field Fólkvangr (the other half going to Odin's hall, Valhalla), and whose brother is Freyr.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Norse Freyja, from freyja (“lady”), from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ.
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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