foodsvsgeraTell them apart

Quick tell: foods is a noun, gera is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“foods” is a noun and “gera” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#43,879
“foods” frequency rank
#12,085
“gera” frequency rank
55964
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature foods gera
Definition Plural des Substantivs food tun

Letter map: foods vs gera

Shared letters muted; letters that set foods and gera apart highlighted. No shared letter run. foods runs 5 letters (CVVCC) against gera's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
foods
4 ch
gera

Role in the sentence - foods and gera

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: foods is anoun and geraaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55964, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

foods is recorded at frequency rank #43,879, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. gera is at rank #12,085, 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 55964, this pair ranks #958,855 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of foods vs gera

Shared letters: none. Private to "foods": dfos. Private to "gera": aegr.

"foods" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC  ·  "gera" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • foods ← ffoods · fodos · fods · foodds · foodss · foosd · ofods
  • gera ← egra · gerra · ggera · grea

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "foods" and "gera" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "foods" is a noun and "gera" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "foods" or "gera"?
"gera" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,085 in our German list, against #43,879 for "foods". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "foods" and "gera". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "foods" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "gera" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #958,855 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "foods" and "gera" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "foods 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 #958,855 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