feelsvsstopWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: feels is a verb, stop is an intj, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#49,663
“feels” frequency rank
#6,109
“stop” frequency rank
55772
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature feels stop
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs feel Aufforderung auf Verkehrszeichen, Drucktasten oder dergleichen zum Anhalten beziehungsweise zum sofortigen Beenden von etwas

Letter map: feels vs stop

Shared letters muted; letters that set feels and stop apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. feels runs 5 letters (CVVCC) against stop's 4 (CCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
feels
4 ch
stop

Role in the sentence - feels and stop

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: feels is averb and stopanintj. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55772, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

feels is recorded at frequency rank #49,663, classified as averb, pronounced […]. stop is at rank #6,109, tagged as anintj, 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 55772, this pair ranks #966,353 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of feels vs stop

Shared letters: s. Private to "feels": efl. Private to "stop": opt.

"feels" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC  ·  "stop" · 4 letters · shape CCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • feels ← efels · feells · feelss · feesl · feles · ffeels
  • stop ← sotp · sstop · sttop · tsop

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "feels" for "stop" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "feels" is a verb and "stop" an intj, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "feels" vs "stop" - which ranks higher?
"stop" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,109 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

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "feels" and "stop".

  • Full dictionary entry for "feels" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "stop" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #966,353 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "feels" and "stop" 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 #966,353 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