feature
/ˈfiː.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/
"feature" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“feature” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #1,599 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,599
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Where “feature” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for feature is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for feature, with forms such as "efature", "faeture", and "featrue". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "future", "fixture", "features", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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. The correct English form is feature, spelled F-E-A-T-U-R-E.
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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: efature,faeture,featrue,featture,featuer,featurre,feautre,fetaure,ffeature
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of feature - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “feature”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-E-A-T-U-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈfiː.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “future” - see the side-by-side comparison. feature vs future
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.