foot
[fʊt]
The verdict
“foot” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,657) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #34,657
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unterste Teil des Beines; Fuß
Corpus desk
Index DE-foot · foot · German
foot · rank #34,657 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,657
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH fol
Nearest frequency peer: fol (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „foot“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- fliegst
fliegst
65,347 corpus weight
- Flugblatt
Flugblatt
65,346 corpus weight
- fol
fol
65,345 corpus weight
- foot
foot
65,344 corpus weight
- formellen
formellen
65,343 corpus weight
- fotografier…
fotografierte
65,342 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „foot“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foot |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fʊt] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #34,657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „foot“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for foot is neighbouring look-alikes ("for", "FPÖ", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [fʊt]. Frequency #34,657 among 3,474 “F” headwords. Gloss: "unterste Teil des Beines; Fuß".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for foot, with forms such as "ffoot", "foott", and "fot". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "for", "FPÖ", "fox", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is foot, spelled F-O-O-T.
Definition
- 1unterste Teil des Beines; Fuß
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how foot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I can't walk faster because my feet hurt
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffoot
- foott
- fot
- ofot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of foot - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "foot", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).