feelsvsninaWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#49,663
“feels” frequency rank
#6,095
“nina” frequency rank
55758
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature feels nina
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs feel Nase

Letter map: feels vs nina

Shared letters muted; letters that set feels and nina apart highlighted. No shared letter run. feels runs 5 letters (CVVCC) against nina's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
feels
4 ch
nina

Part-of-speech tell for feels / nina

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: feels is averb and ninaanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55758, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

feels is recorded at frequency rank #49,663, classified as averb, pronounced […]. nina is at rank #6,095, 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 55758, this pair ranks #966,957 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of feels vs nina

Shared letters: none. Private to "feels": efls. Private to "nina": ain.

"feels" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC  ·  "nina" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • feels ← efels · feells · feelss · feesl · feles · ffeels
  • nina ← inna · nian · ninna · nnia · nnina

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "feels" for "nina" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "feels" is a verb and "nina" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "feels" or "nina"?
"nina" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,095 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

Pair "feels" vs "nina" 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 "nina" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #966,957 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "feels" and "nina" 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 #966,957 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