accountsvshotelsTell them apart

Quick tell: accounts is a verb, hotels is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“accounts” is a verb and “hotels” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#8,320
“accounts” frequency rank
#3,592
“hotels” frequency rank
11912
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature accounts hotels
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs account Plural des Substantivs hotel

Letter map: accounts vs hotels

Shared letters muted; letters that set accounts and hotels apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. accounts runs 8 letters (VCCVVCCC) against hotels's 6 (CVCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
accounts
6 ch
hotels

Role in the sentence - accounts and hotels

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: accounts is averb and hotelsanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11912, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

accounts is recorded at frequency rank #8,320, classified as averb, pronounced […]. hotels is at rank #3,592, 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 11912, this pair ranks #1,967,257 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of accounts vs hotels

Shared letters: ost. Private to "accounts": acnu. Private to "hotels": ehl.

"accounts" · 8 letters · shape VCCVVCCC  ·  "hotels" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • accounts ← acconuts · accounnts · accounst · accountss · accountts · accoutns · accuonts · acocunts
  • hotels ← hhotels · hoetls · hotells · hotelss · hotesl · hotles · hottels · htoels

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "accounts" for "hotels" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "accounts" is a verb and "hotels" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "accounts" or "hotels" show up more?
"hotels" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,592 in our German list, against #8,320 for "accounts". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "accounts" and "hotels".

  • Full dictionary entry for "accounts" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "hotels" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,967,257 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "accounts" and "hotels" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accounts 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 #1,967,257 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