feetvsfeitoWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: feet is a noun, feito is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“feet” is a noun and “feito” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#26,388
“feet” frequency rank
#328
“feito” frequency rank
26716
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature feet feito
Definition plural de foot fabricado, produzido

Where the eye mixes feet and feito

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. feet runs 4 letters (CVVC) against feito's 5 (CVVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
feet
5 ch
feito

Why the eye confuses feet with feito

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: feet is /fiːt/ while feito is /ˈfɐj.tu/. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26716, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

feet is recorded at frequency rank #26,388, classified as anoun, pronounced /fiːt/. feito is at rank #328, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ˈfɐj.tu/.

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 26716, this pair ranks #42,377 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of feet vs feito

Shared letters: eft. Private to "feet": -. Private to "feito": io.

"feet" · 4 letters · shape CVVC  ·  "feito" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • feet ← efet · feett · fet · fete · ffeet
  • feito ← efito · feiot · feitto · fetio · ffeito · fieto

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "feet" and "feito" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "feet" is a noun and "feito" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "feet" vs "feito" - which ranks higher?
"feito" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #328 in our Portuguese list, against #26,388 for "feet". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "feet" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "feito" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #42,377 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "feet" and "feito" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "feet vs fern". 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 #42,377 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list