English homophones

feat/feet

"feet" (#1,105 written frequency) beats "feat" (#7,227) in this 2-word /fiːt/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.

Data vintage

Frequency splits the cluster

These 2 spellings keep the same /fiːt/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "feet" leads at #1,105, with "feat" trailing at #7,227.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Shared stem "fe" then splits - "feat" (4 letters) vs "feet" (4).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across feat, feet: eft. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

  • feat

    4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC

    Inventory aeft · private a

  • feet

    4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVC

    Inventory eft · no private letters vs siblings

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "feat" when you mean: A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.
  • Write "feet" when you mean: plural of foot

Known mistypes of these spellings

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

  • featefat · featt · ffeat
  • feetefet · feett · ffeet

Each spelling

feat

noun · /fiːt/ · #7,227 frequency

A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.

feet

noun · /fiːt/ · #1,105 frequency

plural of foot

Nearby English homophone groups

What to do next

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  • "feet" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #1,105 in English). Full entry
  • Among English homophone groups, a cluster of 2 spellings ranks #133 by size (1,007 groups in this vintage). Corpus statistics
  • Explore a nearby 2-spelling cluster: femme · fem. Nearby cluster
  • Each spelling in "feat, feet" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list