fellervsfilledWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: feller is a noun, filled is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“feller” is a noun and “filled” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#40,240
“feller” frequency rank
#2,041
“filled” frequency rank
42281
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature feller filled
Definition A person who fells trees; a lumberjack That is now full.

Letter map: feller vs filled

Shared letters muted; letters that set feller and filled apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. feller and filled follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

6 ch
feller
6 ch
filled

Part-of-speech tell for feller / filled

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: feller is anoun and filledanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42281, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

feller is recorded at frequency rank #40,240, classified as anoun. filled is at rank #2,041, tagged as anadj, pronounced /fɪld/.

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 42281, this pair ranks #250,665 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of feller vs filled

Shared letters: efl. Private to "feller": r. Private to "filled": di.

"feller" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC  ·  "filled" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • feller ← efller · felelr · feler · fellerr · fellre · ffeller · fleler
  • filled ← ffilled · fileld · fillde · filledd · fliled · iflled

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "feller" for "filled" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "feller" is a noun and "filled" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "feller" or "filled"?
"filled" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,041 in our English list, against #40,240 for "feller". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "feller" and "filled".

  • Full dictionary entry for "feller" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "filled" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #250,665 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "feller" and "filled" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "feller vs Fells". 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 #250,665 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list