Which to use
“floor” is a noun and “four” is a num - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #1,221
- “floor” frequency rank
- #272
- “four” frequency rank
- 1493
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | floor | four |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room. | A numerical value equal to 4; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••) |
Where the eye mixes floor and four
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: floor vs four
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: floor is /flɔː/ while four is /foɹ/. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs num), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 1493, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
floor is recorded at frequency rank #1,221, classified as anoun, pronounced /flɔː/. four is at rank #272, tagged as anum, pronounced /foɹ/.
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 1493, this pair ranks #527,323 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of floor vs four
Shared letters: for. Private to "floor": l. Private to "four": u.
"floor" · 5 letters · shape CCVVC · "four" · 4 letters · shape CVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
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- Full dictionary entry for "floor" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "four" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #527,323 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "floor" and "four" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "floor vs Fyodor". 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 #527,323 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.