foodsvsmegaWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#43,879
“foods” frequency rank
#3,982
“mega” frequency rank
47861
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature foods mega
Definition Plural des Substantivs food die Erlaubnis haben; dürfen

Letter map: foods vs mega

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

5 ch
foods
4 ch
mega

Part-of-speech tell for foods / mega

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: foods is anoun and megaaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47861, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

foods is recorded at frequency rank #43,879, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. mega is at rank #3,982, 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 47861, this pair ranks #1,269,349 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of foods vs mega

Shared letters: none. Private to "foods": dfos. Private to "mega": aegm.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • foodsffoods · fodos · fods · foodds · foodss · foosd · ofods
  • megaemga · meag · megga · mgea · mmega

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "foods" and "mega" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "foods" is a noun and "mega" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "foods" or "mega" show up more?
"mega" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,982 in our German list, against #43,879 for "foods". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "foods" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mega" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,269,349 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "foods" and "mega" 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 #1,269,349 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