feedsvsprotesteWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#48,139
“feeds” frequency rank
#6,340
“proteste” frequency rank
54479
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature feeds proteste
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs feed Plural des Substantivs protesta

Letter map: feeds vs proteste

Shared letters muted; letters that set feeds and proteste apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. feeds runs 5 letters (CVVCC) against proteste's 8 (CCVCVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
feeds
8 ch
proteste

Part-of-speech tell for feeds / proteste

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: feeds is averb and protesteanoun. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54479, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

feeds is recorded at frequency rank #48,139, classified as averb, pronounced […]. proteste is at rank #6,340, 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 54479, this pair ranks #1,017,282 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of feeds vs proteste

Shared letters: es. Private to "feeds": df. Private to "proteste": oprt.

"feeds" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC  ·  "proteste" · 8 letters · shape CCVCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • feeds ← efeds · fedes · feds · feedds · feedss · feesd · ffeeds
  • proteste ← porteste · pproteste · proetste · proteset · protesste · protestte · protetse · protsete

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "feeds" and "proteste" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "feeds" is a verb and "proteste" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "feeds" or "proteste" show up more?
"proteste" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,340 in our German list, against #48,139 for "feeds". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "feeds" and "proteste". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "feeds" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "proteste" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,017,282 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "feeds" and "proteste" 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 #1,017,282 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