Which to use
“felt” and “field” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #770
- “felt” frequency rank
- #571
- “field” frequency rank
- 1341
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | felt | field |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving. | A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country. |
Where the eye mixes felt and field
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
A purely visual mix-up. felt (/ˈfɛlt/) and field (/ˈfi(ː)ld/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 1341, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
felt is recorded at frequency rank #770, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈfɛlt/. field is at rank #571, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈfi(ː)ld/.
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 1341, this pair ranks #527,619 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of felt vs field
Shared letters: efl. Private to "felt": t. Private to "field": di.
"felt" · 4 letters · shape CVCC · "field" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC