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feature

fea·ture/ˈfi.t͡ʃɚ/noun, verb

feature is spelled F-E-A-T-U-R-E: 7 letters and 2 syllables (fea·ture). It appears 66 times per million words in written English, the 1,602nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, feature means “A component that draws attention or interest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of feature is features.

How many letters and syllables are in feature?

Letters7: F-E-A-T-U-R-E
Syllables2: fea·ture
In writing66 times per million words; the 1,602nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is feature?

Feature appears 66 times per million words in written English, the 1,602nd 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 feature?

  • UK /ˈfiː.t͡ʃəː/
  • UK [ˈfɪi̯.t͡ʃəː]
  • US /ˈfi.t͡ʃɚ/

Feature has 2 syllables, split fea·ture in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-feature.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with feature?

4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as feature from its last stressed vowel (/itʃəɹ/):

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 feature

  • features plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • featuring participle, present
  • featured participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does feature mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteOne's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.

  2. 2

    A component that draws attention or interest.

    a water feature

  3. 3

    A beneficial capability of a piece of software.

  4. 4

    A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.

    He was included in a feature that was written by the EspnCricinfo department on the media.

  5. 5

    Ellipsis of feature film.

  6. 6

    Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).

  7. 7

    The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic.

    one of the features of the landscape

  8. 8

    Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.

    A feature of many Central Texas prehistoric archeological sites is a low spreading pile of stones called a rock midden. Other features at these sites may include small hearths.

verb

  1. 1

    To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.

  2. 2

    To star, to contain.

  3. 3

    To appear, to make an appearance.

  4. 4

    datedTo have features resembling.

    More than his talents, Roger grudged him his looks, the brown eyes, golden hair, and oval face, which made people say how Johnny Weir featured his mother.

  5. 5

    USTo think about, understand, or imagine.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate feature?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of feature: feat.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Feature in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcaractéristique, particularité, spécialité (important or main item), trait (one of the physical constituents of the face), fonctionnalité (computing: beneficial capability of a piece of…)
GermanBesonderheit, Charakteristikum, Eigentümlichkeit, Merkmal, Eigenschaft (important or main item), Feature (long, prominent article or item in the media)
Portuguesecaracterística, caraterística, qualidade (important or main item), traço (one of the physical constituents of the face), reportagem, artigo (long, prominent article or item in the media)
Spanishatractivo, prestación (important or main item), facción (one of the physical constituents of the face), contar con, disponer de (to star, to contain), figurar (to appear, to make an appearance)

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 feature come from?

From Middle English feture, from Anglo-Norman feture, from Old French faiture, from Latin factūra, from Latin factus, from Latin faciō (“do, make”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place, set”). Doublet of facture.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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