57Fe hyperfine spectra have been measured in several bulk amorphous rare earth‐iron (RE‐FE) alloys including DyFe2, GdFe2and SmFe2. GdFe2and SmFe2have magnetic ordering temperatures (Tc) above room temperature whereas for DyFe2,Tc=229 ±3°K. DyFe2, which has large local anisotropy associated with the rare‐earth orbital angular momentum, displays broad asymmetrical hyperfine patterns. GdFe2which has weak local anisotropy, has a broad symmetrical pattern and a much higherTc. The asymmetrical hyperfine patters are interpreted in terms of averages over the randomly distributed quadrupolar and pseudo‐dipolar hyperfine field directions. The average hyperfine fields at low temperature are found to scale, for the most part, with the spin (g−1)J of the rare earth. However, the average fields measured in this study are markedly lower for the lighter rare earths than observed in previous Mo¨ssbauer studies of thin‐film ’’amorphous’’ alloys. A dramatic reduction of the recoil‐free fraction is observed to occur as the temperature is lowered belowTcin DyFe2.