friendhood

noun

"friendhood" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“friendhood” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state, quality, or condition of being a friend or friends.

Corpus desk

Index EN-friendhood · friendhood · English

friendhood · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "F" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for friendhood
PropertyValue
Headwordfriendhood
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “friendhood” in English

friendhoodranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

friendhood is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

friendhood doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: From friend + -hood. The correct English form is friendhood, spelled F-R-I-E-N-D-H-O-O-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    The state, quality, or condition of being a friend or friends.
  2. 2
    A society or band of friends.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how friendhood appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. This is fully and quickly intelligible, but what it says is that the process of turning out to be a friend began, not with a set of properties that inconclusively indicated friendhood, but with a set that in fact inconclusively indicated unfriendliness.
  2. Now, if you may remember, until this point both girls had not been truly friends, not in any lasting way that is. It was only that they had just recently, and painfully, forsaken enemyship, and were only just beginning the first processes of friendhood, which was now coming into fruition; And it was here, at this memory, that I believe both girls would re…

Etymology

From friend + -hood.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "friendhood"?
"friendhood" is spelled F-R-I-E-N-D-H-O-O-D.
What does "friendhood" mean?
As a noun, "friendhood" means: The state, quality, or condition of being a friend or friends.
What is the origin of the word "friendhood"?
From friend + -hood. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list