agilvsAprilTell them apart

Quick tell: agil is a adjective, April is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#42,992
“agil” frequency rank
#666
“April” frequency rank
43658
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature agil April
Definition große körperliche oder geistige Beweglichkeit zeigend; aktiv auf Veränderungen reagierend der vierte Monat des Gregorianischen Kalenders

Where the eye mixes agil and April

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

4 ch
agil
5 ch
April

Look-alike desk: agil vs April

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: agil is [aˈɡiːl] while April is [aˈpʁɪl]. 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 (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43658, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

agil is recorded at frequency rank #42,992, classified as anadj, pronounced [aˈɡiːl]. April is at rank #666, tagged as anoun, pronounced [aˈpʁɪl].

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 43658, this pair ranks #1,411,042 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of agil vs April

Shared letters: ail. Private to "agil": g. Private to "April": pr.

"agil" · 4 letters · shape VCVC  ·  "April" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • agil ← aggil · agill · agli · aigl
  • April ← apirl · appril · aprill · aprli · aprril · arpil · paril

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "agil" and "April" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "agil" is an adjective and "April" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "agil" or "April" show up more?
"April" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #666 in our German list, against #42,992 for "agil". 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 "agil" and "April" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "agil" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "April" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,411,042 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "agil" and "April" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "agil vs avis". 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 #1,411,042 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