FosvsfrogWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Fos is a name, frog is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Fos” is a name and “frog” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#33,268
“Fos” frequency rank
#42,890
“frog” frequency rank
76158
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Fos frog
Definition Commune française, située dans le département de la Haute-Garonne. Surnom dont des Canadiens non francophones affublent les Québécois francophones.

Letter map: Fos vs frog

Shared letters muted; letters that set Fos and frog apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

3 ch
Fos
4 ch
frog

Part-of-speech tell for Fos / frog

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Fos is aname and froganoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 76158, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Fos is recorded at frequency rank #33,268, classified as aname. frog is at rank #42,890, tagged as anoun, pronounced \fɹɒɡ\.

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 76158, this pair ranks #31,934 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Fos vs frog

Shared letters: fo. Private to "Fos": s. Private to "frog": gr.

"Fos" · 3 letters · shape CVC  ·  "frog" · 4 letters · shape CCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • frogffrog · forg · frgo · frogg · frrog · rfog

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "Fos" and "frog" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Fos" is a name and "frog" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Fos" vs "frog" - which ranks higher?
"Fos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #33,268 in our French list, against #42,890 for "frog". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "Fos" and "frog". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Fos" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "frog" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #31,934 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Fos" and "frog" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fog vs frog". 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 #31,934 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