madevsmodWhich spelling fits?

Which to use

“made” and “mod” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#7,860
“made” frequency rank
#13,637
“mod” frequency rank
21497
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature made mod
Definition Fruit du Saba senegalensis. Package créé par un·e ou plusieurs utilisateurices contenant des modifications de l’apparence ou du comportement d'un jeu vidéo.

Where the eye mixes made and mod

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.

4 ch
made
3 ch
mod

Look-alike desk: made vs mod

A purely visual mix-up. made (\mad\) and mod (\mɔd\) 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 21497, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

made is recorded at frequency rank #7,860, classified as anoun, pronounced \mad\. mod is at rank #13,637, tagged as anoun, pronounced \mɔd\.

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 21497, this pair ranks #362,880 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of made vs mod

Shared letters: dm. Private to "made": ae. Private to "mod": o.

"made" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "mod" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • madeamde · madde · maed · mdae · mmade

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "made" for "mod" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\mad\ versus \mɔd\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary French text, does "made" or "mod" show up more?
"made" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,860 in our French list, against #13,637 for "mod". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "made" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mod" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #362,880 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "made" and "mod" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mod vs MWh". 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 #362,880 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