lundvsLutzConfusable pair

Quick tell: lund is a verb, Lutz is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“lund” is a verb and “Lutz” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#36,036
“lund” frequency rank
#36,477
“Lutz” frequency rank
72513
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature lund Lutz
Definition Première personne du singulier du prétérit de linden. Nom de famille allemand.

Letter map: lund vs Lutz

Shared letters muted; letters that set lund and Lutz apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. lund and Lutz follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
lund
4 ch
Lutz

Part-of-speech tell for lund / Lutz

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: lund is averb and Lutzaname. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 72513, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

lund is recorded at frequency rank #36,036, classified as averb, pronounced \lʊnt\. Lutz is at rank #36,477, tagged as aname.

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 72513, this pair ranks #43,744 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of lund vs Lutz

Shared letters: lu. Private to "lund": dn. Private to "Lutz": tz.

"lund" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "Lutz" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • lund ← llund · lnud · ludn · lundd · lunnd · ulnd
  • Lutz ← llutz · ltuz · luttz · lutzz · luzt · ultz

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "lund" for "Lutz" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "lund" is a verb and "Lutz" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "lund" or "Lutz" show up more?
"lund" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #36,036 in our French list, against #36,477 for "Lutz". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "lund" and "Lutz".

  • Full dictionary entry for "lund" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Lutz" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #43,744 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "lund" and "Lutz" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "lure vs Lutz". 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 #43,744 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