fundy
"fundy" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fundy” is uncommon English (frequency #60,818 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,818
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of fundie.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fundy · fundy · English
fundy · rank #60,818 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,818
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH frist
Nearest frequency peer: frist (-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 “fundy”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- forefinger
forefinger
39,187 corpus weight
- fracas
fracas
39,185 corpus weight
- frist
frist
39,184 corpus weight
- fundy
fundy
39,183 corpus weight
- Galton
Galton
39,181 corpus weight
- gans
gans
39,180 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “fundy” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fundy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fundy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fundy is uncommon English at frequency #60,818 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of fundie.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fundy, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is fundy, spelled F-U-N-D-Y.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of fundie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fundy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
You're afraid l'm some sort of fundy and if you say you don't believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for you l'll spend the next hour trying to save your soul.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).