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felter

/ˈfɛltə(ɹ)/noun

felter is a noun meaning “A person who works with or makes felt; a feltmaker” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-L-T-E-R and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 56 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of felter is felters.

What does felter mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A person who works with or makes felt; a feltmaker.

verb

  1. 1

    archaicTo clot, tangle, or mat together, such as like felt.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce felter?

  • /ˈfɛltə(ɹ)/

Felter has 2 syllables (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).

Forms of felter

  • felters present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • feltering participle, present
  • feltered participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is felter?

Felter appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th 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).