featurette
"featurette" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“featurette” is uncommon English (frequency #62,889 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,889
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A relatively short feature film.
Corpus desk
Index EN-featurette · featurette · English
featurette · rank #62,889 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,889
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH failsafe
Nearest frequency peer: failsafe (-4 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “featurette”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- failsafe
failsafe
37,116 corpus weight
- featurette
featurette
37,112 corpus weight
- Festus
Festus
37,108 corpus weight
- Fiedler
Fiedler
37,106 corpus weight
- fisheye
fisheye
37,104 corpus weight
- flatline
flatline
37,103 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “featurette” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | featurette |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,889 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “featurette” in English
Rare enough to double-check
featurette is uncommon English at frequency #62,889 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
featurette has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From feature + -ette. The correct English form is featurette, spelled F-E-A-T-U-R-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1A relatively short feature film.
- 2A short film of bonus material, companion to the main feature, frequently part of additional material in a home video release on LaserDisc, DVD, Blu-Ray.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how featurette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The 1950 production program of the RD-DR Corporation (Reader's Digest-deRochemont) has been expanded to include six hour-length “featurettes” in addition to two longer pictures, it was announced yesterday by Louis de Rochemont, the producer.
With DVDs steadily joining VHS cassettes as extinct technology, what has become of the fun, insightful mixed bag that movie fans came to know as bonus features — the audio commentaries, behind-the-scenes featurettes, bloopers, deleted scenes and alternate endings?
Etymology
From feature + -ette.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).