FeldvsfoodTell them apart

Which to use

“Feld” and “food” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#49,082
“Feld” frequency rank
#8,110
“food” frequency rank
57192
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Feld food
Definition Champ, surface cultivée. Nourriture.

Where the eye mixes Feld and food

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. Feld (CVCC) and food (CVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

4 ch
Feld
4 ch
food

Look-alike desk: Feld vs food

A purely visual mix-up. Feld (\fɛlt\) and food (\fuːd\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57192, 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\. food is at rank #8,110, tagged as anoun, pronounced \fuːd\.

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 57192, this pair ranks #116,518 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Feld vs food

Shared letters: df. Private to "Feld": el. Private to "food": o.

"Feld" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "food" · 4 letters · shape CVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Feld ← efld · fedl · feldd · felld · ffeld · fled
  • food ← ffood · fod · fodo · foodd · ofod

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Feld" for "food" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\fɛlt\ versus \fuːd\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "Feld" vs "food" - which ranks higher?
"food" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,110 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.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "Feld" and "food" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Feld" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "food" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #116,518 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Feld" and "food" 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 #116,518 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