billsvsblasConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#48,785
“bills” frequency rank
#32,964
“blas” frequency rank
81749
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature bills blas
Definition Plural des Substantivs bill 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs blasen

Letter map: bills vs blas

Shared letters muted; letters that set bills and blas apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. bills runs 5 letters (CVCCC) against blas's 4 (CCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
bills
4 ch
blas

Part-of-speech tell for bills / blas

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: bills is anoun and blasaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 81749, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

bills is recorded at frequency rank #48,785, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. blas is at rank #32,964, tagged as averb, pronounced [blaːs].

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 81749, this pair ranks #169,887 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of bills vs blas

Shared letters: bls. Private to "bills": i. Private to "blas": a.

"bills" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC  ·  "blas" · 4 letters · shape CCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • bills ← bbills · billss · bils · bilsl · blils · iblls
  • blas ← bblas · bllas · blsa · lbas

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "bills" for "blas" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "bills" is a noun and "blas" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "bills" or "blas"?
"blas" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #32,964 in our German list, against #48,785 for "bills". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "bills" vs "blas" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "bills" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "blas" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #169,887 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "bills" and "blas" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "bills 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 #169,887 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