Which to use
“find” is a verb and “fons” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #22,266
- “find” frequency rank
- #43,445
- “fons” frequency rank
- 65711
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | find | fons |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de finden. | Fonds (patrimoine). |
Letter map: find vs fons
Shared letters muted; letters that set find and fons apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. find and fons follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Role in the sentence - find and fons
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: find is averb and fonsanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 65711, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
find is recorded at frequency rank #22,266, classified as averb, pronounced \fɪnt\. fons is at rank #43,445, tagged as anoun.
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 65711, this pair ranks #71,099 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of find vs fons
Shared letters: fn. Private to "find": di. Private to "fons": os.
"find" · 4 letters · shape CVCC · "fons" · 4 letters · shape CVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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Frequency check: "find" vs "fons" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
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- Full dictionary entry for "find" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "fons" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #71,099 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "find" and "fons" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "foins vs fons". 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 #71,099 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.