FeldvsfillConfusable pair

Quick tell: Feld is a noun, fill is an adverb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#49,082
“Feld” frequency rank
#38,807
“fill” frequency rank
87889
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Feld fill
Definition Champ, surface cultivée. Aussitôt, immédiatement, sitôt, tout de suite, d’abord.

Where the eye mixes Feld and fill

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. Feld and fill follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
Feld
4 ch
fill

Look-alike desk: Feld vs fill

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: Feld is \fɛlt\ while fill is \ˈfiɫ\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adverb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 87889, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Feld is recorded at frequency rank #49,082, classified as anoun, pronounced \fɛlt\. fill is at rank #38,807, tagged as anadv, pronounced \ˈfiɫ\.

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 87889, this pair ranks #7,681 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Feld vs fill

Shared letters: fl. Private to "Feld": de. Private to "fill": i.

"Feld" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "fill" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Feld ← efld · fedl · feldd · felld · ffeld · fled
  • fill ← ffill · flil · ifll

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Feld" and "fill" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Feld" is a noun and "fill" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "Feld" or "fill" show up more?
"fill" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #38,807 in our French list, against #49,082 for "Feld". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Feld" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "fill" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #7,681 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Feld" and "fill" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Fee vs Feld". 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 #7,681 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