Which to use
“bills” is a noun and “bulls” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #48,785
- “bills” frequency rank
- #25,486
- “bulls” frequency rank
- 74271
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | bills | bulls |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Plural des Substantivs bill | 2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs bullir |
Letter map: bills vs bulls
Shared letters muted; letters that set bills and bulls apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. bills and bulls follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Part-of-speech tell for bills / bulls
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: bills is anoun and bullsaverb. On the page they differ by a single letter - i in “bills” becomes u in “bulls”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 74271, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
bills is recorded at frequency rank #48,785, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. bulls is at rank #25,486, tagged as averb, pronounced [buʎs].
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 74271, this pair ranks #337,846 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of bills vs bulls
Shared letters: bls. Private to "bills": i. Private to "bulls": u.
"bills" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC · "bulls" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "bills" for "bulls" ever safe?
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Useful next steps
Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "bills" and "bulls".
- Full dictionary entry for "bills" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "bulls" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #337,846 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "bills" and "bulls" 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 #337,846 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.