feels
/fiːlz/verb, noun, adjective
feels is spelled F-E-E-L-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 79 times per million words in written English, the 1,338th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, feels means “third-person singular simple present indicative of feel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in feels?
| Letters | 5: F-E-E-L-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 79 times per million words; the 1,338th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is feels?
Feels appears 79 times per million words in written English, the 1,338th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce feels?
- /fiːlz/
Feels has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-feels.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with feels?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as feels.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: lefse.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of feels
- feel singular
- more feels comparative
- most feels superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does feels mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of feel
noun
- 1
colloquialFeelings; emotions; especially, tender sentiment.
hit me right in the feels
adjective
- 1
colloquialSynonym of emotional.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).