AlbinvsAlbumWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Albin is a name, Album is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Albin” is a name and “Album” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#40,368
“Albin” frequency rank
#1,500
“Album” frequency rank
41868
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Albin Album
Definition männlicher Vorname; Albin, Albinus Behältnis, ursprünglich in Buchform, das mehrere Sammelobjekte enthalten kann

Where the eye mixes Albin and Album

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. Albin and Album follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
Albin
5 ch
Album

Visual trap between Albin and Album

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: Albin is [ˈalbʲin] while Album is [ˈalbʊm]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (name vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41868, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Albin is recorded at frequency rank #40,368, classified as aname, pronounced [ˈalbʲin]. Album is at rank #1,500, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈalbʊm].

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 41868, this pair ranks #1,466,648 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Albin vs Album

Shared letters: abl. Private to "Albin": in. Private to "Album": mu.

"Albin" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC  ·  "Album" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Albin ← ablin · albbin · albinn · albni · alibn · allbin · labin
  • Album ← ablum · albbum · albmu · albumm · allbum · alubm · labum

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Albin" and "Album" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Albin" is a name and "Album" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Albin" vs "Album" - which ranks higher?
"Album" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,500 in our German list, against #40,368 for "Albin". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Albin" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Album" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,466,648 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Albin" and "Album" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Albin vs Amin". 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 #1,466,648 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