feelsvsmarioWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#49,663
“feels” frequency rank
#2,911
“mario” frequency rank
52574
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature feels mario
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs feel der Ehemann

Letter map: feels vs mario

Shared letters muted; letters that set feels and mario apart highlighted. No shared letter run. feels (CVVCC) and mario (CVCVV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch
feels
5 ch
mario

Role in the sentence - feels and mario

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: feels is averb and marioanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 5 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 52574, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

feels is recorded at frequency rank #49,663, classified as averb, pronounced […]. mario is at rank #2,911, 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 52574, this pair ranks #1,091,489 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of feels vs mario

Shared letters: none. Private to "feels": efls. Private to "mario": aimor.

"feels" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC  ·  "mario" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • feelsefels · feells · feelss · feesl · feles · ffeels
  • marioamrio · mairo · maroi · marrio · mmario · mraio

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "feels" for "mario" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "feels" is a verb and "mario" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "feels" vs "mario" - which ranks higher?
"mario" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,911 in our German list, against #49,663 for "feels". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "feels" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mario" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,091,489 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "feels" and "mario" 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 #1,091,489 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