felty
/ˈfɛlti/adjective, noun
felty is an adjective meaning “Of, pertaining to, or similar to felt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-L-T-Y and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does felty mean?
adjective
- 1
Of, pertaining to, or similar to felt.
noun
- 1
UKThe fieldfare.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce felty?
- /ˈfɛlti/
Felty 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 felty
- more felty comparative
- most felty superlative
- felties plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is felty?
Felty appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th 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).
Where does felty come from?
From felt + -y.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).