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.
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (feat, feet). Here's where to go from here.
- "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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