Which to use
“foods” is a noun and “sweet” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #43,879
- “foods” frequency rank
- #12,600
- “sweet” frequency rank
- 56479
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | foods | sweet |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Plural des Substantivs food | süßer Geschmack |
Letter map: foods vs sweet
Shared letters muted; letters that set foods and sweet apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. foods (CVVCC) and sweet (CCVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Part-of-speech tell for foods / sweet
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: foods is anoun and sweetanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 5 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56479, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
foods is recorded at frequency rank #43,879, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. sweet is at rank #12,600, tagged as anadj, 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 56479, this pair ranks #938,552 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of foods vs sweet
Shared letters: s. Private to "foods": dfo. Private to "sweet": etw.
"foods" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC · "sweet" · 5 letters · shape CCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "foods" for "sweet" ever safe?
Frequency check: "foods" vs "sweet" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Pair "foods" vs "sweet" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.
- Full dictionary entry for "foods" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "sweet" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #938,552 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "foods" and "sweet" 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 #938,552 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.