feet vs feito, What's the Difference?

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 spellings diverge

Shared letters are muted; the letters that actually set feet and feito apart are highlighted. They share 3 letters in sequence, which is exactly why the eye skips the difference.

4 ch

feet

5 ch

feito

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

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

Frequency comparison

feet#26,388

feito#328

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "feet" and "feito" be used interchangeably?

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.

Which is more common, "feet" or "feito"?

"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.

Remembering feet vs feito

The fastest way to pick the right one every time.

Check the role first: if you need a noun, it's “feet”; for an adjective, it's “feito”.
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