Which to use
“foods” is a noun and “their” is a pronoun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #43,879
- “foods” frequency rank
- #11,131
- “their” frequency rank
- 55010
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | foods | their |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Plural des Substantivs food | ihr |
Letter map: foods vs their
Shared letters muted; letters that set foods and their apart highlighted. No shared letter run. foods (CVVCC) and their (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 / their
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: foods is anoun and theirapronoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 5 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55010, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
foods is recorded at frequency rank #43,879, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. their is at rank #11,131, tagged as apron, 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 55010, this pair ranks #996,243 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of foods vs their
Shared letters: none. Private to "foods": dfos. Private to "their": ehirt.
"foods" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC · "their" · 5 letters · shape CCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "foods" for "their" ever safe?
Frequency check: "foods" vs "their" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
You've compared "foods" and "their". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "foods" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "their" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #996,243 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "foods" and "their" 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 #996,243 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.