seafowl
"seafowl" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“seafowl” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Any bird that spends most of its time in coastal waters or over the oceans.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | seafowl |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “seafowl” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
seafowl is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any bird that spends most of its time in coastal waters or over the oceans.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for seafowl, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English sefoul, from Old English sǣfugol (“seabird”), equivalent to sea + fowl. Cognate with Dutch zeevogel, German Seevogel, Swedish sjöfågel, Icelandic sjófugl. The correct English form is seafowl, spelled S-E-A-F-O-W-L.
Definition
- 1Any bird that spends most of its time in coastal waters or over the oceans.
Etymology
From Middle English sefoul, from Old English sǣfugol (“seabird”), equivalent to sea + fowl. Cognate with Dutch zeevogel, German Seevogel, Swedish sjöfågel, Icelandic sjófugl.
Synonyms
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.
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Using “seafowl”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-E-A-F-O-W-L - 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.