foodsvslegoWhat's the difference?

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

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.

5 ch
foods
4 ch
lego

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

  • foods ← ffoods · fodos · fods · foodds · foodss · foosd · ofods
  • lego ← elgo · leggo · leog · lgeo · llego

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "foods" for "lego" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "foods" is a noun and "lego" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "foods" or "lego" show up more?
"lego" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,085 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.

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list