wildfowl
/ˈwaɪldfaʊl/
"wildfowl" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wildfowl” is uncommon English (frequency #89,023 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,023
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any wild bird such as ducks, geese or swans.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wildfowl · wildfowl · English
wildfowl · rank #89,023 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,023
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH Winterton
Nearest frequency peer: Winterton (+2 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 “wildfowl”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Watkin
Watkin
10,990 corpus weight
- Wensleydale
Wensleydale
10,986 corpus weight
- wildfowl
wildfowl
10,978 corpus weight
- Winterton
Winterton
10,976 corpus weight
- wittle
wittle
10,974 corpus weight
- wrasse
wrasse
10,971 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “wildfowl” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wildfowl |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈwaɪldfaʊl/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,023 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “wildfowl” in English
Rare enough to double-check
wildfowl is uncommon English at frequency #89,023 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈwaɪldfaʊl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any wild bird such as ducks, geese or swans.".
wildfowl has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From wild + fowl. The correct English form is wildfowl, spelled W-I-L-D-F-O-W-L.
Definition
- 1Any wild bird such as ducks, geese or swans.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wildfowl appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonyms: gamefowl, game bird
[…] Whoso seeks an audit here Propitious, pays his tribute, game or fish, Wildfowl or ven’son, and his errand speeds.
Etymology
From wild + fowl.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).