feels
/fiːlz/
"feels" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“feels” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,338. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,338
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of feel, sensory perceptions that mainly or solely involve the sense of touch
Corpus desk
Index EN-feels · feels · English
feels · rank #1,338 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,338
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH facebook
Nearest frequency peer: facebook (-1 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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “feels”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- driving
driving
98,666 corpus weight
- established
established
98,665 corpus weight
- facebook
facebook
98,664 corpus weight
- feels
feels
98,663 corpus weight
- fish
fish
98,662 corpus weight
- Gay
Gay
98,661 corpus weight
What this shows “feels” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | feels |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fiːlz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “feels”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around feels (IPA /fiːlz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,338 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of feel, sensory perceptions that mainly or solely involve the sense of touch".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for feels, with forms such as "efels", "feells", and "feelss". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "FES", "felt", "feet", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is feels, spelled F-E-E-L-S.
Definition
- 1plural of feel, sensory perceptions that mainly or solely involve the sense of touch
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how feels appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dr. Pope confirms my feels that the side is no better & the tenderness to the feel as great as when he was last here.
A large portion of natural magic and sleight of hand is only the severance of sights and feels that we are accustomed to experience in unison.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efels
- feells
- feelss
- feesl
- feles
- fels
- ffeels
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of feels - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "feels", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).