foodsvshealthConfusable pair

Which to use

“foods” and “health” are a confusable German pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#43,879
“foods” frequency rank
#10,297
“health” frequency rank
54176
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature foods health
Definition Plural des Substantivs food Gesundheit, Gesundheitszustand

Letter map: foods vs health

Shared letters muted; letters that set foods and health apart highlighted. No shared letter run. foods runs 5 letters (CVVCC) against health's 6 (CVVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
foods
6 ch
health

Spelling & dictionary notes on foods vs health

foods and health are indexed as a confusable German pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54176, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

foods is recorded at frequency rank #43,879, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. health is at rank #10,297, tagged as anoun, 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 54176, this pair ranks #1,029,175 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of foods vs health

Shared letters: none. Private to "foods": dfos. Private to "health": aehlt.

"foods" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC  ·  "health" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • foods ← ffoods · fodos · fods · foodds · foodss · foosd · ofods
  • health ← ehalth · haelth · healht · heallth · healthh · healtth · heatlh · helath

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "foods" for "health" ever safe?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "foods" vs "health" - which ranks higher?
"health" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,297 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.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "foods" and "health".

  • Full dictionary entry for "foods" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "health" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,029,175 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "foods" and "health" 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 #1,029,175 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