awayvsHeinzTell them apart

Quick tell: away is a adverb, Heinz is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“away” is an adverb and “Heinz” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#15,565
“away” frequency rank
#1,888
“Heinz” frequency rank
17453
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature away Heinz
Definition weg, fort, abwesend Holzgerüst zum Trocknen des Heus

Letter map: away vs Heinz

Shared letters muted; letters that set away and Heinz apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

4 ch
away
5 ch
Heinz

Part-of-speech tell for away / Heinz

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: away is anadverb and Heinzanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17453, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

away is recorded at frequency rank #15,565, classified as anadv, pronounced […]. Heinz is at rank #1,888, 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 17453, this pair ranks #1,927,266 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of away vs Heinz

Shared letters: none. Private to "away": awy. Private to "Heinz": ehinz.

"away" · 4 letters · shape VCVV  ·  "Heinz" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • awayaawy · awayy · awway · awya · waay
  • Heinzehinz · heinnz · heinzz · heizn · heniz · hheinz · hienz

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "away" for "Heinz" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "away" is an adverb and "Heinz" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "away" or "Heinz" show up more?
"Heinz" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,888 in our German list, against #15,565 for "away". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "away" and "Heinz".

  • Full dictionary entry for "away" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Heinz" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,927,266 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "away" and "Heinz" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "away 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 #1,927,266 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