batesvsjurorWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#34,536
“bates” frequency rank
#49,812
“juror” frequency rank
84348
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature bates juror
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs bate Geschworener, Geschworene

Letter map: bates vs juror

Shared letters muted; letters that set bates and juror apart highlighted. No shared letter run. bates and juror follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
bates
5 ch
juror

Part-of-speech tell for bates / juror

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: bates is averb and juroranoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 5 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 84348, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

bates is recorded at frequency rank #34,536, classified as averb, pronounced […]. juror is at rank #49,812, 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 84348, this pair ranks #125,204 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of bates vs juror

Shared letters: none. Private to "bates": abest. Private to "juror": joru.

"bates" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "juror" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • bates ← batess · batse · battes · bbates · btaes
  • juror ← jjuror · jruor · juorr · jurorr · jurro · jurror · ujror

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "bates" and "juror" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "bates" is a verb and "juror" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "bates" or "juror"?
"bates" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #34,536 in our German list, against #49,812 for "juror". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "bates" vs "juror" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "bates" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "juror" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #125,204 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "bates" and "juror" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "juror 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 #125,204 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