fontvsfutConfusable pair

Quick tell: font is a noun, fut is an intj, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“font” is a noun and “fut” is an intj - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#9,611
“font” frequency rank
#44,798
“fut” frequency rank
54409
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature font fut
Definition A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism. Alternative form of 'sfoot.

Letter map: font vs fut

Shared letters muted; letters that set font and fut apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
font
3 ch
fut

Part-of-speech tell for font / fut

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: font is anoun and futanintj. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54409, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

font is recorded at frequency rank #9,611, classified as anoun, pronounced /fɒnt/. fut is at rank #44,798, tagged as anintj.

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 54409, this pair ranks #141,295 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of font vs fut

Shared letters: ft. Private to "font": no. Private to "fut": u.

"font" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "fut" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • fontffont · fnot · fonnt · fontt · fotn · ofnt

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "font" and "fut" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "font" is a noun and "fut" an intj, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "font" or "fut"?
"font" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #9,611 in our English list, against #44,798 for "fut". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "font" and "fut". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "font" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "fut" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #141,295 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "font" and "fut" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "foh vs fut". 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 #141,295 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list