feel
/fiːl/
The verdict
“feel” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,877) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,877
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tato, sensação, percepção, impressão
Corpus desk
Index PT-feel · feel · Portuguese
feel · rank #11,877 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,877
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH fornecedor
Nearest frequency peer: fornecedor (+5 rank slots)
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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “feel”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- er
er
88,135 corpus weight
- feel
feel
88,124 corpus weight
- fornecedor
fornecedor
88,119 corpus weight
- fotografar
fotografar
88,118 corpus weight
- frequentar
frequentar
88,117 corpus weight
- guerrilha
guerrilha
88,113 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “feel” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feel |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fiːl/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,877 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “feel”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for feel is neighbouring look-alikes ("fez", "fil", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /fiːl/. Frequency #11,877 among 853 “F” headwords. Gloss: "tato, sensação, percepção, impressão".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for feel, with forms such as "efel", "feell", and "fele". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fez", "fil", "few", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is feel, spelled F-E-E-L.
Definition
- 1tato, sensação, percepção, impressão
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efel
- feell
- fele
- ffeel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of feel - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).