Friesian
/ˈfɹiːʒən/
"friesian" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Friesian” is uncommon English (frequency #99,292 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,292
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A breed of black and white dairy cattle; any individual cow of that breed.
Corpus desk
Index EN-friesian · Friesian · English
Friesian · rank #99,292 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,292
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH friary
Nearest frequency peer: friary (-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 “Friesian”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- fretful
fretful
711 corpus weight
- friary
friary
710 corpus weight
- Friesian
Friesian
709 corpus weight
- frontally
frontally
707 corpus weight
- Fukunaga
Fukunaga
706 corpus weight
- funda
funda
704 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Friesian” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Friesian” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Friesian is uncommon English at frequency #99,292 among 2,507 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Friesian appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[...] the more expensive and creamier Jersey or South Devon milk, for example, is kept apart from Friesian milk, with its low butter content.
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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