feelsvsFoulsWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#49,663
“feels” frequency rank
#48,153
“Fouls” frequency rank
97816
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Letter map: feels vs Fouls

Shared letters muted; letters that set feels and Fouls apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. feels and Fouls follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
feels
5 ch
Fouls

Part-of-speech tell for feels / Fouls

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: feels is averb and Foulsanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 97816, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

feels is recorded at frequency rank #49,663, classified as averb, pronounced […]. Fouls is at rank #48,153, tagged as anoun, pronounced [faʊ̯ls].

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 97816, this pair ranks #2,762 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of feels vs Fouls

Shared letters: fls. Private to "feels": e. Private to "Fouls": ou.

"feels" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC  ·  "Fouls" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • feels ← efels · feells · feelss · feesl · feles · ffeels
  • Fouls ← ffouls · folus · foulls · foulss · fousl · fuols · ofuls

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "feels" and "Fouls" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "feels" is a verb and "Fouls" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "feels" or "Fouls" show up more?
"Fouls" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #48,153 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.

After this comparison

Pair "feels" vs "Fouls" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "feels" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Fouls" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #2,762 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "feels" and "Fouls" 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 #2,762 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