amazingvsAmazoneWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#23,411
“amazing” frequency rank
#42,324
“Amazone” frequency rank
65735
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature amazing Amazone
Definition Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs amaze in der griechischen und römischen Mythologie auftauchender matriarchalisch organisierter Volksstamm

Letter map: amazing vs Amazone

Shared letters muted; letters that set amazing and Amazone apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.

7 ch
amazing
7 ch
Amazone

Part-of-speech tell for amazing / Amazone

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: amazing is averb and Amazoneanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 65735, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

amazing is recorded at frequency rank #23,411, classified as averb, pronounced […]. Amazone is at rank #42,324, tagged as anoun, pronounced [amaˈt͡soːnə].

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 65735, this pair ranks #596,862 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of amazing vs Amazone

Shared letters: amnz. Private to "amazing": gi. Private to "Amazone": eo.

"amazing" · 7 letters · shape VCVCVCC  ·  "Amazone" · 7 letters · shape VCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • amazingaamzing · amaizng · amazign · amazingg · amazinng · amaznig · amazzing · ammazing
  • Amazoneaamzone · amaozne · amaznoe · amazoen · amazonne · amazzone · ammazone · amzaone

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "amazing" and "Amazone" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "amazing" is a verb and "Amazone" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "amazing" vs "Amazone" - which ranks higher?
"amazing" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #23,411 in our German list, against #42,324 for "Amazone". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "amazing" and "Amazone". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "amazing" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Amazone" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #596,862 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "amazing" and "Amazone" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Amazone vs Amazons". 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 #596,862 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