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fel

Pronunciation: /feːl/

“fel” is a Swedish word. Its 4 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. wrong, incorrect, erroneous

adverb

  1. wrong, wrongly, incorrectly, erroneously

noun

  1. wrong (incorrectness or moral wrongness), (sometimes, by rephrasing) a mistake
  2. an error, a fault, a defect, a wrong

Etymology

From Middle Low German feil, from French faille (“fault, flaw”). See Norwegian feil and Danish fejl. Used in Swedish at least since 1527. For the adverb, the now obsolete form felt was the dominant written form until the mid 19th century.

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