Which to use
“foods” is a noun and “forms” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #43,879
- “foods” frequency rank
- #45,276
- “forms” frequency rank
- 89155
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | foods | forms |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Plural des Substantivs food | 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs form |
Letter map: foods vs forms
Shared letters muted; letters that set foods and forms apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. foods (CVVCC) and forms (CVCCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Part-of-speech tell for foods / forms
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: foods is anoun and formsaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 89155, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
foods is recorded at frequency rank #43,879, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. forms is at rank #45,276, tagged as averb, 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 89155, this pair ranks #60,354 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of foods vs forms
Shared letters: fos. Private to "foods": d. Private to "forms": mr.
"foods" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC · "forms" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "foods" and "forms" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary German text, does "foods" or "forms" show up more?
After this comparison
You've compared "foods" and "forms". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "foods" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "forms" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #60,354 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "foods" and "forms" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "forms 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 #60,354 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.