USFWS
"usfws" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“USFWS” is uncommon English (frequency #86,905 among 1,433 “U” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,905
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
Corpus desk
Index EN-usfws · USFWS · English
USFWS · rank #86,905 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,905
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH upvotes
Nearest frequency peer: upvotes (-3 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 “USFWS”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- unverifiable
unverifiable
13,102 corpus weight
- upregulation
upregulation
13,100 corpus weight
- upvotes
upvotes
13,099 corpus weight
- USFWS
USFWS
13,096 corpus weight
- vajra
vajra
13,093 corpus weight
- vandyke
vandyke
13,090 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “USFWS” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | USFWS |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “USFWS” in English
Rare enough to double-check
USFWS is uncommon English at frequency #86,905 among 1,433 “U” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Initialism of United States Fish and Wildlife Service.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for USFWS, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is USFWS, spelled U-S-F-W-S.
Definition
- 1Initialism of United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how USFWS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Great River Energy will work with the USFWS to identify any areas that may require marking transmission line shield wires and/or to use alternate structures to reduce the likelihood of avian collisions once design of the Transmission Line is complete.
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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