Which to use
“foods” is a noun and “lego” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #43,879
- “foods” frequency rank
- #11,085
- “lego” frequency rank
- 54964
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | foods | lego |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Plural des Substantivs food | 1. Person Singular Präsens Aktiv des Verbs legare |
Letter map: foods vs lego
Shared letters muted; letters that set foods and lego apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. foods runs 5 letters (CVVCC) against lego's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Role in the sentence - foods and lego
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: foods is anoun and legoaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54964, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
foods is recorded at frequency rank #43,879, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. lego is at rank #11,085, 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 54964, this pair ranks #998,013 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of foods vs lego
Shared letters: o. Private to "foods": dfs. Private to "lego": egl.
"foods" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC · "lego" · 4 letters · shape CVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "foods" for "lego" ever safe?
In ordinary German text, does "foods" or "lego" show up more?
After this comparison
Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "foods" and "lego".
- Full dictionary entry for "foods" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "lego" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #998,013 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "foods" and "lego" 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 #998,013 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.