Which to use
“foot” and “front” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,823
- “foot” frequency rank
- #1,393
- “front” frequency rank
- 4216
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | foot | front |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Football. | Partie antérieure de quelque chose. → voir de front |
Where the eye mixes foot and front
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: foot vs front
A purely visual mix-up. foot (\fut\) and front (\fʁɔ̃\) 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 4216, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
foot is recorded at frequency rank #2,823, classified as anoun, pronounced \fut\. front is at rank #1,393, tagged as anoun, pronounced \fʁɔ̃\.
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 4216, this pair ranks #432,163 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of foot vs front
Shared letters: fot. Private to "foot": -. Private to "front": nr.
"foot" · 4 letters · shape CVVC · "front" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "foot" and "front" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "foot" or "front"?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "foot" and "front" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "foot" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "front" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #432,163 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "foot" and "front" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fronce vs front". 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 #432,163 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.