foodvsfrohWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: food is a noun, froh is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“food” is a noun and “froh” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#7,045
“food” frequency rank
#1,386
“froh” frequency rank
8431
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature food froh
Definition jede Substanz die von Menschen, Pflanzen oder Tieren aufgenommen wird, um das Überleben und das Wachstum zu ermöglichen, Nahrung voller Freude sein

Letter map: food vs froh

Shared letters muted; letters that set food and froh apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
food
4 ch
froh

Part-of-speech tell for food / froh

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: food is anoun and frohanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 8431, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

food is recorded at frequency rank #7,045, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. froh is at rank #1,386, tagged as anadj, pronounced [fʁoː].

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 8431, this pair ranks #1,984,310 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of food vs froh

Shared letters: fo. Private to "food": d. Private to "froh": hr.

"food" · 4 letters · shape CVVC  ·  "froh" · 4 letters · shape CCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • foodffood · fod · fodo · foodd · ofod
  • frohffroh · forh · frho · frohh · frroh · rfoh

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "food" and "froh" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "food" is a noun and "froh" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "food" vs "froh" - which ranks higher?
"froh" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,386 in our German list, against #7,045 for "food". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "food" and "froh". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "food" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "froh" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,984,310 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "food" and "froh" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "food 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 #1,984,310 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