foodvsholaWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: food is a noun, hola is a phrase, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#7,045
“food” frequency rank
#48,229
“hola” frequency rank
55274
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature food hola
Definition jede Substanz die von Menschen, Pflanzen oder Tieren aufgenommen wird, um das Überleben und das Wachstum zu ermöglichen, Nahrung hallo

Letter map: food vs hola

Shared letters muted; letters that set food and hola apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. food (CVVC) and hola (CVCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

4 ch
food
4 ch
hola

Role in the sentence - food and hola

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: food is anoun and holaaphrase. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55274, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

food is recorded at frequency rank #7,045, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. hola is at rank #48,229, tagged as aphrase, 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 55274, this pair ranks #985,961 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of food vs hola

Shared letters: o. Private to "food": df. Private to "hola": ahl.

"food" · 4 letters · shape CVVC  ·  "hola" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • food ← ffood · fod · fodo · foodd · ofod
  • hola ← hhola · hloa · hoal · holla · ohla

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "food" and "hola" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "food" is a noun and "hola" a phrase, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "food" vs "hola" - which ranks higher?
"food" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,045 in our German list, against #48,229 for "hola". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "food" vs "hola" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "food" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "hola" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #985,961 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "food" and "hola" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hola 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 #985,961 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