featuresvspsychologyWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: features is a verb, psychology is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“features” is a verb and “psychology” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#11,866
“features” frequency rank
#43,427
“psychology” frequency rank
55293
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature features psychology
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs feature Psychologie; das Studium des menschlichen Geistes und seiner Funktionen und Einflussnahmen auf das menschliche Verhalten

Letter map: features vs psychology

Shared letters muted; letters that set features and psychology apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. features runs 8 letters (CVVCVCVC) against psychology's 10 (CCVCCVCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
features
10 ch
psychology

Part-of-speech tell for features / psychology

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: features is averb and psychologyanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55293, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

features is recorded at frequency rank #11,866, classified as averb, pronounced […]. psychology is at rank #43,427, tagged as anoun, pronounced […].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 55293, this pair ranks #985,250 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of features vs psychology

Shared letters: s. Private to "features": aefrtu. Private to "psychology": cghlopy.

"features" · 8 letters · shape CVVCVCVC  ·  "psychology" · 10 letters · shape CCVCCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • features ← efatures · faetures · featrues · feattures · featuers · featuress · featurres · featurse
  • psychology ← ppsychology · pscyhology · pssychology · psycchology · psychhology · psychloogy · psycholgoy · psychollogy

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "features" for "psychology" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "features" is a verb and "psychology" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "features" or "psychology"?
"features" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,866 in our German list, against #43,427 for "psychology". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "features" vs "psychology" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "features" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "psychology" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #985,250 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "features" and "psychology" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "psychology vs puzzles". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #985,250 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list