feature
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "feature", 7-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "feature" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "feature" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
feature is aEnglishnoun. It means: One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions. Pronounced /ˈfiː.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/. It ranks #1,599 in English word frequency. Often confused with future and fixture.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feature |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfiː.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,599 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for feature is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈfiː.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,599 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for feature, with forms such as "efature", "faeture", and "featrue". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "future", "fixture", "features", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: 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. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is feature, spelled F-E-A-T-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
- 2An important or main item.
- 3A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
- 4A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
- 5Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
- 6A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
- 7The 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.
- 8Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
- 9Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
- 10An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.
- 11The act of being featured in a piece of music.
- 12The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.
Etymology
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: efature,faeture,featrue,featture,featuer,featurre,feautre,fetaure,ffeature
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for feature
Misspelling Variants of "feature"
Frequency rank: #1,599 in English
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