feedsvsveraWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: feeds is a verb, vera is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#48,139
“feeds” frequency rank
#8,302
“vera” frequency rank
56441
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature feeds vera
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs feed wahr, regelrecht

Letter map: feeds vs vera

Shared letters muted; letters that set feeds and vera apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. feeds runs 5 letters (CVVCC) against vera's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
feeds
4 ch
vera

Role in the sentence - feeds and vera

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: feeds is averb and veraanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56441, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

feeds is recorded at frequency rank #48,139, classified as averb, pronounced […]. vera is at rank #8,302, tagged as anadj, 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 56441, this pair ranks #940,030 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of feeds vs vera

Shared letters: e. Private to "feeds": dfs. Private to "vera": arv.

"feeds" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC  ·  "vera" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • feeds ← efeds · fedes · feds · feedds · feedss · feesd · ffeeds
  • vera ← evra · vear · verra · vrea · vvera

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "feeds" and "vera" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "feeds" is a verb and "vera" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "feeds" vs "vera" - which ranks higher?
"vera" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,302 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.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "feeds" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "vera" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #940,030 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "feeds" and "vera" 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 #940,030 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