feely
/ˈfiːli/
"feely" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“feely” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #46,460. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,460
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - soft; smooth; velvety
Corpus desk
Index EN-feely · feely · English
feely · rank #46,460 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,460
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH Featherstone
Nearest frequency peer: Featherstone (-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 “feely”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- facile
facile
53,545 corpus weight
- fatherless
fatherless
53,543 corpus weight
- Featherstone
Featherstone
53,542 corpus weight
- feely
feely
53,541 corpus weight
- fertilize
fertilize
53,540 corpus weight
- fittingly
fittingly
53,537 corpus weight
What this shows “feely” 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 | feely |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈfiːli/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #46,460 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “feely”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around feely (IPA /ˈfiːli/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #46,460 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "soft; smooth; velvety".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for feely, with forms such as "efely", "feelly", and "feelyy". 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, "fly", "fey", "felt", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From feal + -y. The correct English form is feely, spelled F-E-E-L-Y.
Definition
- 1soft; smooth; velvety
Etymology
From feal + -y.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efely
- feelly
- feelyy
- feeyl
- feley
- fely
- ffeely
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of feely - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "feely", 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).