feelsvsFeenTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#49,663
“feels” frequency rank
#30,551
“Feen” frequency rank
80214
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature feels Feen
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs feel Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Fee

Letter map: feels vs Feen

Shared letters muted; letters that set feels and Feen apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
feels
4 ch
Feen

Part-of-speech tell for feels / Feen

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: feels is averb and Feenanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 80214, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

feels is recorded at frequency rank #49,663, classified as averb, pronounced […]. Feen is at rank #30,551, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈfeːən].

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 80214, this pair ranks #200,181 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of feels vs Feen

Shared letters: ef. Private to "feels": ls. Private to "Feen": n.

"feels" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC  ·  "Feen" · 4 letters · shape CVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • feelsefels · feells · feelss · feesl · feles · ffeels
  • Feenefen · feenn · fene · ffeen

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "feels" for "Feen" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "feels" is a verb and "Feen" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "feels" or "Feen" show up more?
"Feen" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #30,551 in our German list, against #49,663 for "feels". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "feels" and "Feen". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "feels" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Feen" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #200,181 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "feels" and "Feen" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "feels 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 #200,181 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