# felt

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈfɛlt/ · frequency rank #770

## Definitions
1. A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
2. A hat made of felt.
3. A felt-tip pen.
4. A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.

## Etymology
From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”, adjective), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.

## Easily confused with
- **FL** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/felt-vs-fl)
- **few** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/felt-vs-few)
- **fit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/felt-vs-fit)
- **fly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/felt-vs-fly)
- **flu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/felt-vs-flu)
- **FLA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/felt-vs-fla)
- **fil** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/felt-vs-fil)
- **Flo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/felt-vs-flo)
- **fer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/felt-vs-fer)
- **fey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/felt-vs-fey)
- **fez** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/felt-vs-fez)
- **fem** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/felt-vs-fem)
- **fen** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/felt-vs-fen)
- **FES** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/felt-vs-fes)
- **FET** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/felt-vs-fet)
- **FTL** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/felt-vs-ftl)
- **feu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/felt-vs-feu)
- **fut** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/felt-vs-fut)
- **full** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/felt-vs-full)
- **film** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/felt-vs-film)

## Common misspellings (6)
`eflt`, `fellt`, `feltt`, `fetl`, `ffelt`, `flet`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/felt