Friesian
/ˈfɹiːʒən/
"friesian" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Friesian” is uncommon English (frequency #99,292 among 18,613 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,292
- frequency rank, English
- 18,613
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A breed of black and white dairy cattle; any individual cow of that breed.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Friesian |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfɹiːʒən/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,292 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Friesian” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Friesian is uncommon English at frequency #99,292 among 18,613 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈfɹiːʒən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Friesian doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Friesian, spelled F-R-I-E-S-I-A-N.
Definition
- 1A breed of black and white dairy cattle; any individual cow of that breed.
- 2A black breed of horse.
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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Using “Friesian”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-R-I-E-S-I-A-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.