feelsvsnotenTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#49,663
“feels” frequency rank
#5,014
“noten” frequency rank
54677
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature feels noten
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs feel Nominativ Singular bestimmte Form des Substantivs not

Letter map: feels vs noten

Shared letters muted; letters that set feels and noten apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. feels (CVVCC) and noten (CVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch
feels
5 ch
noten

Part-of-speech tell for feels / noten

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: feels is averb and notenanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 5 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54677, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

feels is recorded at frequency rank #49,663, classified as averb, pronounced […]. noten is at rank #5,014, 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 54677, this pair ranks #1,009,520 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of feels vs noten

Shared letters: e. Private to "feels": fls. Private to "noten": not.

"feels" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC  ·  "noten" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • feels ← efels · feells · feelss · feesl · feles · ffeels
  • noten ← nnoten · noetn · notenn · notne · notten · ntoen · onten

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "feels" and "noten" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "feels" is a verb and "noten" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "feels" or "noten"?
"noten" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,014 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.

What to do next

Pair "feels" vs "noten" 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 "noten" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,009,520 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "feels" and "noten" 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 #1,009,520 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