FIERCEFUL- DDs spelling homework, is it a real word or not?

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Amongst other "ie"" words on DDs list is FIERCEFUL. This is not a word I've ever come across. Checked a couple of online dictionaries and can't find it. Would you tell the teacher she's rubbish or what?

I love the nature of words. It may only have one citation in the dictionary but looking on the internet people are still using it. I used to snicker at my MIL when she used the word snewed for snowed, thinking it because of her dialect. I then stumbled on an article about how many words commonly found only in dialects were actually olde english words. The article listed snew as one of them. I looked it up and there it was. It's last citation is in Chaucer 1300 and something but I can assure you it's alive and well in Norfolk and Suffolk. I still can't bring myself to use it but I did have to eat my snickers and very tasty they were

It deffo snews in Norfolk as in "that be snewing outside boy".

Perhaps the teacher is training them all up as Call My Bluff contestants (is it still running? I used to be enormously pleased when I actually knew a word - though 'fierceful' is too easily deducible)

Oh I use to love "call my bluff"!

gorioine- you should play this game.

We add a rule that you also get 2 points if your definition is the same as in the dictionary.

emphatically NOT a word.