fatavslegoWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: fata is a noun, lego is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“fata” is a noun and “lego” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#45,920
“fata” frequency rank
#11,085
“lego” frequency rank
57005
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature fata lego
Definition die Fee 1. Person Singular Präsens Aktiv des Verbs legare

Letter map: fata vs lego

Shared letters muted; letters that set fata and lego apart highlighted. No shared letter run. fata and lego follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
fata
4 ch
lego

Role in the sentence - fata and lego

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: fata is anoun and legoaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57005, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

fata is recorded at frequency rank #45,920, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. lego is at rank #11,085, tagged as averb, pronounced […].

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 57005, this pair ranks #918,214 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of fata vs lego

Shared letters: none. Private to "fata": aft. Private to "lego": eglo.

"fata" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "lego" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • fata ← afta · faat · fatta · ffata · ftaa
  • lego ← elgo · leggo · leog · lgeo · llego

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "fata" for "lego" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "fata" is a noun and "lego" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "fata" or "lego"?
"lego" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,085 in our German list, against #45,920 for "fata". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "fata" vs "lego" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "fata" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "lego" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #918,214 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "fata" and "lego" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fata vs puzzles". 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 #918,214 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list