bewiesvsbodiesWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#16,102
“bewies” frequency rank
#48,791
“bodies” frequency rank
64893
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature bewies bodies
Definition 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs beweisen Plural des Substantivs body

Letter map: bewies vs bodies

Shared letters muted; letters that set bewies and bodies apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. bewies and bodies follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

6 ch
bewies
6 ch
bodies

Part-of-speech tell for bewies / bodies

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: bewies is averb and bodiesanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 64893, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

bewies is recorded at frequency rank #16,102, classified as averb, pronounced [bəˈviːs]. bodies is at rank #48,791, 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 64893, this pair ranks #625,643 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of bewies vs bodies

Shared letters: beis. Private to "bewies": w. Private to "bodies": do.

"bewies" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC  ·  "bodies" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • bewies ← bbewies · beiwes · bewiess · bewise · bewwies · bweies · ebwies
  • bodies ← bbodies · bdoies · boddies · bodeis · bodiess · bodise · boides · obdies

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "bewies" for "bodies" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "bewies" is a verb and "bodies" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "bewies" vs "bodies" - which ranks higher?
"bewies" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,102 in our German list, against #48,791 for "bodies". 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 "bewies" and "bodies".

  • Full dictionary entry for "bewies" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "bodies" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #625,643 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "bewies" and "bodies" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "bodies 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 #625,643 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