AdelevsandereWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: Adele is a name, andere is an unknown, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Adele” is a name and “andere” is an unknown - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#18,148
“Adele” frequency rank
#164
“andere” frequency rank
18312
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Adele andere
Definition weiblicher Vorname Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Flexion des Indefinitpronomens anderer

Where the eye mixes Adele and andere

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.

5 ch
Adele
6 ch
andere

Look-alike desk: Adele vs andere

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: Adele is [aˈdeːlə] while andere is [ˈandəʁə]. 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 (name vs unknown), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18312, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Adele is recorded at frequency rank #18,148, classified as aname, pronounced [aˈdeːlə]. andere is at rank #164, tagged as anunknown, pronounced [ˈandəʁə].

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 18312, this pair ranks #1,919,440 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Adele vs andere

Shared letters: ade. Private to "Adele": l. Private to "andere": nr.

"Adele" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV  ·  "andere" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Adeleaddele · adeel · adelle · adlee · aedle · daele
  • andereadnere · anddere · andeer · anderre · andree · anedre · anndere · nadere

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "Adele" and "andere" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Adele" is a name and "andere" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Adele" or "andere" show up more?
"andere" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #164 in our German list, against #18,148 for "Adele". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "Adele" and "andere" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Adele" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "andere" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,919,440 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Adele" and "andere" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Adele vs apel". 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 #1,919,440 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