featuresvsTurkishTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#11,866
“features” frequency rank
#43,546
“Turkish” frequency rank
55412
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature features Turkish
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs feature die Sprache Türkisch

Letter map: features vs Turkish

Shared letters muted; letters that set features and Turkish apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. features runs 8 letters (CVVCVCVC) against Turkish's 7 (CVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
features
7 ch
Turkish

Part-of-speech tell for features / Turkish

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: features is averb and Turkishanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55412, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

features is recorded at frequency rank #11,866, classified as averb, pronounced […]. Turkish is at rank #43,546, 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 55412, this pair ranks #980,589 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of features vs Turkish

Shared letters: rstu. Private to "features": aef. Private to "Turkish": hik.

"features" · 8 letters · shape CVVCVCVC  ·  "Turkish" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • features ← efatures · faetures · featrues · feattures · featuers · featuress · featurres · featurse
  • Turkish ← trukish · tturkish · tukrish · turiksh · turkihs · turkishh · turkissh · turkkish

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "features" and "Turkish" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "features" is a verb and "Turkish" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "features" or "Turkish" show up more?
"features" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,866 in our German list, against #43,546 for "Turkish". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "features" and "Turkish".

  • Full dictionary entry for "features" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Turkish" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #980,589 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "features" and "Turkish" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs Turkish". 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 #980,589 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