foodvslargoWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#7,045
“food” frequency rank
#49,040
“largo” frequency rank
56085
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Letter map: food vs largo

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

4 ch
food
5 ch
largo

Part-of-speech tell for food / largo

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: food is anoun and largoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56085, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

food is recorded at frequency rank #7,045, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. largo is at rank #49,040, 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 56085, this pair ranks #954,175 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of food vs largo

Shared letters: o. Private to "food": df. Private to "largo": aglr.

"food" · 4 letters · shape CVVC  ·  "largo" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • food ← ffood · fod · fodo · foodd · ofod
  • largo ← alrgo · lagro · larggo · larog · larrgo · llargo · lrago

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "food" and "largo" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "food" is a noun and "largo" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "food" or "largo" show up more?
"food" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,045 in our German list, against #49,040 for "largo". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "food" vs "largo" 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 "largo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #954,175 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "food" and "largo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "largo 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 #954,175 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