Which to use
“find” and “found” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #22,266
- “find” frequency rank
- #27,070
- “found” frequency rank
- 49336
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | find | found |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de finden. | Prétérit et participe passé du verbe to find (« trouver »). |
Where the eye mixes find and found
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: find vs found
A purely visual mix-up. find (\fɪnt\) and found (\ˈfɑʊnd\) 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 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49336, 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\. found is at rank #27,070, tagged as averb, pronounced \ˈfɑʊnd\.
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 49336, this pair ranks #171,532 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of find vs found
Shared letters: dfn. Private to "find": i. Private to "found": ou.
"find" · 4 letters · shape CVCC · "found" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "find" and "found" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "find" vs "found" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "find" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "found" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #171,532 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "find" and "found" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "foins vs found". 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 #171,532 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.