# feature

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈfiː.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/ · frequency rank #1,599

## Definitions
1. One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
2. An important or main item.
3. A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
4. A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
5. Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
6. A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
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.
8. Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
9. Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
10. An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.
11. The act of being featured in a piece of music.
12. The 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.

## Easily confused with
- **future** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feature-vs-future)
- **fixture** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feature-vs-fixture)
- **features** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feature-vs-features)
- **featured** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feature-vs-featured)
- **fracture** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feature-vs-fracture)

## Common misspellings (9)
`efature`, `faeture`, `featrue`, `featture`, `featuer`, `featurre`, `feautre`, `fetaure`, `ffeature`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/feature