capitalsvsPollockTell them apart

Quick tell: capitals is a noun, Pollock is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“capitals” is a noun and “Pollock” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#42,397
“capitals” frequency rank
#49,968
“Pollock” frequency rank
92365
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature capitals Pollock
Definition Plural des Substantivs capital deutschsprachiger Nachname, Familienname

Letter map: capitals vs Pollock

Shared letters muted; letters that set capitals and Pollock apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

8 ch
capitals
7 ch
Pollock

Part-of-speech tell for capitals / Pollock

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: capitals is anoun and Pollockaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 92365, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

capitals is recorded at frequency rank #42,397, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. Pollock is at rank #49,968, tagged as aname, 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 92365, this pair ranks #30,350 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of capitals vs Pollock

Shared letters: clp. Private to "capitals": aist. Private to "Pollock": ko.

"capitals" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCC  ·  "Pollock" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • capitalsacpitals · caiptals · capiatls · capitalls · capitalss · capitasl · capitlas · capittals
  • Pollockopllock · plolock · pollcok · pollocck · pollockk · pollokc · polock · pololck

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "capitals" for "Pollock" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "capitals" is a noun and "Pollock" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "capitals" or "Pollock" show up more?
"capitals" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #42,397 in our German list, against #49,968 for "Pollock". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "capitals" and "Pollock". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "capitals" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Pollock" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #30,350 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "capitals" and "Pollock" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Pollock 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 #30,350 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