felted
"felted" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“felted” is uncommon English (frequency #76,774 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,774
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Covered with (a specified kind of) felt.
Corpus desk
Index EN-felted · felted · English
felted · rank #76,774 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,774
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH FBC
Nearest frequency peer: FBC (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “felted”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Evangelista
Evangelista
23,234 corpus weight
- FBC
FBC
23,228 corpus weight
- felted
felted
23,227 corpus weight
- Flournoy
Flournoy
23,223 corpus weight
- flouted
flouted
23,222 corpus weight
- fowls
fowls
23,220 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “felted” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | felted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “felted” in English
Rare enough to double-check
felted is uncommon English at frequency #76,774 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for felted in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is felted, spelled F-E-L-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Covered with (a specified kind of) felt.
- 2Having interlocked hairs to the extent of being matted.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how felted appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Corrugated-steel ceilings, a dozen blue-felted pool tables and DJ house music Thursday to Saturday.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).