feat
/fiːt/noun, verb
feat is spelled F-E-A-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 9.8 times per million words in written English, the 7,224th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “feat vs feet” about 140 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, feat means “A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of feat is feats.
How many letters and syllables are in feat?
| Letters | 4: F-E-A-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 9.8 times per million words; the 7,224th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is feat?
Feat appears 9.8 times per million words in written English, the 7,224th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce feat?
- /fiːt/
Feat has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-feat.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with feat
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: feet (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with feat?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as feat.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: fate, feta.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of feat
- feats plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- feater comparative
- featest superlative
- feating participle, present
- feated participle, past
- ft.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does feat mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.
I consider scaling Mount Blanc the greatest physical feat of my life.
- 2
Clipping of feature.
feat: Add undo button
verb
- 1
informalTo feature.
- 2
obsoleteTo form; to fashion.
adjective
- 1
archaicDexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Feat in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense an accomplishment that's relatively rare or difficult:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | exploit, haut fait, prouesse, coup d'éclat, action d'éclat |
| German | Leistung, Meisterstück, Meisterleistung, Glanzstück, Glanzleistung |
| Portuguese | feito, façanha, proeza |
| Spanish | hazaña, fazaña, gesta, hombrada, machada |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does feat come from?
From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman fet (“action, deed”), from Old French fait, from Latin factum, from facere (“to do, to make”). Doublet of fact.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).