foodvsstopTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#7,045
“food” frequency rank
#6,109
“stop” frequency rank
13154
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature food stop
Definition jede Substanz die von Menschen, Pflanzen oder Tieren aufgenommen wird, um das Überleben und das Wachstum zu ermöglichen, Nahrung Aufforderung auf Verkehrszeichen, Drucktasten oder dergleichen zum Anhalten beziehungsweise zum sofortigen Beenden von etwas

Letter map: food vs stop

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

4 ch
food
4 ch
stop

Part-of-speech tell for food / stop

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: food is anoun and stopanintj. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13154, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

food is recorded at frequency rank #7,045, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. stop is at rank #6,109, tagged as anintj, 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 13154, this pair ranks #1,959,780 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of food vs stop

Shared letters: o. Private to "food": df. Private to "stop": pst.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • food ← ffood · fod · fodo · foodd · ofod
  • stop ← sotp · sstop · sttop · tsop

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "food" and "stop" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "food" is a noun and "stop" an intj, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "food" or "stop"?
"stop" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,109 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.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "food" and "stop".

  • Full dictionary entry for "food" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "stop" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,959,780 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "food" and "stop" 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 #1,959,780 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