camevscasaWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#37,428
“came” frequency rank
#16,664
“casa” frequency rank
54092
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature came casa
Definition Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs come das Haus, das Zuhause

Letter map: came vs casa

Shared letters muted; letters that set came and casa apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. came and casa follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
came
4 ch
casa

Role in the sentence - came and casa

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: came is averb and casaanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54092, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

came is recorded at frequency rank #37,428, classified as averb, pronounced […]. casa is at rank #16,664, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈkasa].

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 54092, this pair ranks #1,032,438 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of came vs casa

Shared letters: ac. Private to "came": em. Private to "casa": s.

"came" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "casa" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • came ← acme · caem · camme · ccame · cmae
  • casa ← acsa · caas · cassa · ccasa · csaa

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "came" and "casa" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "came" is a verb and "casa" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "came" or "casa" show up more?
"casa" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,664 in our German list, against #37,428 for "came". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "came" vs "casa" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "came" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "casa" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,032,438 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "came" and "casa" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "came 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 #1,032,438 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