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pheasantry

/ˈfɛ.zən.tɹɪ/noun

pheasantry is spelled P-H-E-A-S-A-N-T-R-Y: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pheasantry means “A place for keeping and rearing pheasants” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pheasantry is pheasantries.

How many letters and syllables are in pheasantry?

Letters10: P-H-E-A-S-A-N-T-R-Y
In writingabout once in every 89 million words; the 301,415th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is pheasantry?

Pheasantry appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce pheasantry?

  • /ˈfɛ.zən.tɹɪ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-pheasantry.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of pheasantry

  • pheasantries plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does pheasantry mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A place for keeping and rearing pheasants.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Pheasantry in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense place for keeping pheasants:

LanguageWords
Frenchfaisanderie
GermanFasanengarten, Fasanerie
Spanishfaisanería

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does pheasantry come from?

From pheasant + -ry.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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