feevsFehdeTell them apart

Which to use

“fee” and “Fehde” are a confusable German pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#14,799
“fee” frequency rank
#30,552
“Fehde” frequency rank
45351
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature fee Fehde
Definition Entgelt, Lohn, Gage, Honorar kämpferische Auseinandersetzung, um Ansprüche durchzusetzen; früher eine Streithandlung mit Waffengewalt, heute in übertragenem Sinne länger währende Auseinandersetzung mit anderen Mitteln, zum Beispiel mit dem gesprochenen Wort

Letter map: fee vs Fehde

Shared letters muted; letters that set fee and Fehde apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. fee runs 3 letters (CVV) against Fehde's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

3 ch
fee
5 ch
Fehde

Pair insight - fee / Fehde

fee and Fehde are indexed as a confusable German pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45351, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

fee is recorded at frequency rank #14,799, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. Fehde is at rank #30,552, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈfeːdə].

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 45351, this pair ranks #1,355,972 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of fee vs Fehde

Shared letters: ef. Private to "fee": -. Private to "Fehde": dh.

"fee" · 3 letters · shape CVV  ·  "Fehde" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Fehde ← efhde · fedhe · fehdde · fehed · fehhde · ffehde · fhede

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "fee" and "Fehde" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 2 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "fee" vs "Fehde" - which ranks higher?
"fee" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,799 in our German list, against #30,552 for "Fehde". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "fee" and "Fehde".

  • Full dictionary entry for "fee" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Fehde" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,355,972 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "fee" and "Fehde" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Fehde vs Felge". 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 #1,355,972 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