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.
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
- made ← amde · madde · maed · mdae · mmade
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "made" for "mod" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "made" or "mod" show up more?
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.