news feed

noun

"news-feed" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

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

Unranked
below top-frequency English
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of newsfeed.

Corpus desk

Index EN-news-feed · news feed · English

news feed · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "N" 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 news feed
PropertyValue
Headwordnews feed
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “news feed” in English

news feedranks 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

news feed is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of newsfeed.".

news feed has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is news feed, spelled N-E-W-S- -F-E-E-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Alternative form of newsfeed.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. The National Black Network, the nation’s first black‐owned and operated radio news network, went on the air yesterday at 6 A.M. with hourly five-minute news feeds to stations in 40 cities.
  2. From next year Europa will take video news feeds from EBU [European Broadcasting Union] members but will provide its own commentary in English.

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 "news feed"?
"news feed" is spelled N-E-W-S- -F-E-E-D.
What does "news feed" mean?
As a noun, "news feed" means: Alternative form of newsfeed.
What language does "news feed" come from?
"news feed" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list