What is the difference between fairy and faery?

Question

im confused.

Answer 1

no difference,just different spelling ^^

Answer 2

As everyone else said, they are the same thing with different spellings.

Answer 3

spelling. in europe it is usually speller fae...in the US (where we tend to make many things phonetic it is spelled fai...

Answer 4

they kind of mean the same but this might help throw light on this for you.

the word faery is often used to talk about the ancient mythical faeries, such as in folklore and literature. for example edmund spensers epic poem 'the faerie queen'. i've heard he was the first person to use this spelling.

the faeries (spelled that way) tend to be a kind of 'grown up' faery, some people believe they are descended from ancient gods. there is also a connection with druidism and also witchcraft (as in morgan-le-fey of arthurian legend). they are also linked to earth spirits, and elementals, and there are many different types of faery such as y tylwyth teg (of wales), the sidhe (of ireland) and the seelie and unseelie court (scotland). an important point is that these faeries are rarely described as having wings.

whereas fairy is used for the fairies of disney and childrens stories - such as tinkerbell, and as in fairy tales, fairy god-mothers, flower fairies. they have wings and tend to be friendly, gentle and kind (faeries, on the other hand can have a bit of a dark side and you wouldn't want to offend them by confusing them with the fairies).

having said that - older books on the the subject will use the 'fairy' spelling to talk about 'faeries'. as does wikipedia. but the different spellings help make it clearer which faeries/fairies you mean.

hope that helps?

Answer 5

There is no difference; they're just different spellings. Fairies can also be called fey, the Fair Folk, Good Neighbors, and a lot of other things.