Which to use
“felice” and “féline” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #45,040
- “felice” frequency rank
- #45,629
- “féline” frequency rank
- 90669
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | felice | féline |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Heureux. | Féminin singulier de félin. |
Where the eye mixes felice and féline
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. felice and féline follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Visual trap between felice and féline
A purely visual mix-up. felice (\fe.ˈli.t͡ʃe\) and féline (\fe.lin\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 90669, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
felice is recorded at frequency rank #45,040, classified as anadj, pronounced \fe.ˈli.t͡ʃe\. féline is at rank #45,629, tagged as anadj, pronounced \fe.lin\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 90669, this pair ranks #4,573 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of felice vs féline
Shared letters: efil. Private to "felice": c. Private to "féline": né.
"felice" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "féline" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- felice ← eflice · feilce · felcie · felicce · feliec · fellice · ffelice · fleice
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "felice" for "féline" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "felice" or "féline" show up more?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "felice" and "féline" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "felice" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "féline" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #4,573 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "felice" and "féline" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "féline vs fétide". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #4,573 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.