Which to use
“food” and “foot” are a confusable Spanish pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,365
- “food” frequency rank
- #43,017
- “foot” frequency rank
- 57382
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | food | foot |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Comida, alimento. | Pie. |
Where the eye mixes food and foot
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. food and foot follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: food vs foot
A purely visual mix-up. food (/fuːd/) and foot (/fʊt/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by a single letter - d in “food” becomes t in “foot”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57382, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
food is recorded at frequency rank #14,365, classified as anoun, pronounced /fuːd/. foot is at rank #43,017, tagged as anoun, pronounced /fʊt/.
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 57382, this pair ranks #70,719 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of food vs foot
Shared letters: fo. Private to "food": d. Private to "foot": t.
"food" · 4 letters · shape CVVC · "foot" · 4 letters · shape CVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "food" for "foot" ever safe?
Frequency check: "food" vs "foot" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "food" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "foot" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #70,719 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "food" and "foot" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "foot vs fora". 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 #70,719 of 323,831 scored Spanish pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.