feetvsfitWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: feet is a noun, fit is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“feet” is a noun and “fit” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#43,431
“feet” frequency rank
#2,175
“fit” frequency rank
45606
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature feet fit
Definition Pluriel de foot. En bonne santé, en pleine forme.

Same sound, different letters: feet vs fit

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 2 letters.

4 ch
feet
3 ch
fit

Same sound, different spelling - feet / fit

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: feet and fit carry the same recorded pronunciation, \fiːt\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45606, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

feet is recorded at frequency rank #43,431, classified as anoun, pronounced \fiːt\. fit is at rank #2,175, tagged as anadj, pronounced \fit\.

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 45606, this pair ranks #201,424 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of feet vs fit

Shared letters: ft. Private to "feet": e. Private to "fit": i.

"feet" · 4 letters · shape CVVC  ·  "fit" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • feetfeett · fet · ffeet

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "feet" and "fit" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "feet" is a noun and "fit" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "feet" or "fit" show up more?
"fit" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,175 in our French list, against #43,431 for "feet". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "feet" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "fit" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #201,424 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "feet" and "fit" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Fee vs feet". 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 #201,424 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list