feedsvshotelsWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#48,139
“feeds” frequency rank
#3,592
“hotels” frequency rank
51731
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature feeds hotels
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs feed Plural des Substantivs hotel

Letter map: feeds vs hotels

Shared letters muted; letters that set feeds and hotels apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. feeds runs 5 letters (CVVCC) against hotels's 6 (CVCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
feeds
6 ch
hotels

Grammar separator: feeds vs hotels

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: feeds is averb and hotelsanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51731, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

feeds is recorded at frequency rank #48,139, classified as averb, pronounced […]. hotels is at rank #3,592, 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 51731, this pair ranks #1,124,209 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of feeds vs hotels

Shared letters: es. Private to "feeds": df. Private to "hotels": hlot.

"feeds" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC  ·  "hotels" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • feedsefeds · fedes · feds · feedds · feedss · feesd · ffeeds
  • hotelshhotels · hoetls · hotells · hotelss · hotesl · hotles · hottels · htoels

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "feeds" for "hotels" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "feeds" is a verb and "hotels" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "feeds" vs "hotels" - which ranks higher?
"hotels" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,592 in our German list, against #48,139 for "feeds". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "feeds" and "hotels".

  • Full dictionary entry for "feeds" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "hotels" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,124,209 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "feeds" and "hotels" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "feeds 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 #1,124,209 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