featuresvsfotoTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#11,866
“features” frequency rank
#812
“foto” frequency rank
12678
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature features foto
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs feature Licht

Letter map: features vs foto

Shared letters muted; letters that set features and foto apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

8 ch
features
4 ch
foto

Part-of-speech tell for features / foto

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: features is averb and fotoanoun. On the page they differ by 4 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12678, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

features is recorded at frequency rank #11,866, classified as averb, pronounced […]. foto is at rank #812, tagged as anoun, 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 12678, this pair ranks #1,962,730 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of features vs foto

Shared letters: ft. Private to "features": aersu. Private to "foto": o.

"features" · 8 letters · shape CVVCVCVC  ·  "foto" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • featuresefatures · faetures · featrues · feattures · featuers · featuress · featurres · featurse
  • fotoffoto · fotto · ftoo · ofto

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "features" and "foto" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "features" is a verb and "foto" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "features" vs "foto" - which ranks higher?
"foto" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #812 in our German list, against #11,866 for "features". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pair "features" vs "foto" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "features" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "foto" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,962,730 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "features" and "foto" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "features 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 #1,962,730 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