1ervscommunityWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: 1er is a adjective, community is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“1er” is an adjective and “community” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#26,274
“1er” frequency rank
#2,760
“community” frequency rank
29034
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature 1er community
Definition dem zweiten vorangehend; 1. politische Gemeinde

Letter map: 1er vs community

Shared letters muted; letters that set 1er and community apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

3 ch
1er
9 ch
community

Grammar separator: 1er vs community

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: 1er is anadjective and communityanoun. On the page they differ by 6 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 29034, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

1er is recorded at frequency rank #26,274, classified as anadj, pronounced […]. community is at rank #2,760, tagged as anoun, pronounced […].

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 29034, this pair ranks #1,774,228 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of 1er vs community

Shared letters: none. Private to "1er": er. Private to "community": cimnotuy.

"1er" · 2 letters · shape VC  ·  "community" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • communityccommunity · cmomunity · commnuity · commuinty · communitty · communityy · communiyt · communnity

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "1er" for "community" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "1er" is an adjective and "community" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "1er" or "community" show up more?
"community" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,760 in our German list, against #26,274 for "1er". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "1er" and "community". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "1er" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "community" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,774,228 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "1er" and "community" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "1er vs puzzles". 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 #1,774,228 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list