fellow feeling
"fellow-feeling" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fellow feeling” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A sense of sympathy for, consideration of, or shared interests with one or more other human beings.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fellow feeling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fellow feeling” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for fellow feeling is 14 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A sense of sympathy for, consideration of, or shared interests with one or more other human beings.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for fellow feeling in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is fellow feeling, spelled F-E-L-L-O-W- -F-E-E-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A sense of sympathy for, consideration of, or shared interests with one or more other human beings.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “fellow feeling”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-E-L-L-O-W- -F-E-E-L-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.