championvsPollockTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#8,693
“champion” frequency rank
#49,968
“Pollock” frequency rank
58661
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature champion Pollock
Definition der Gewinner, Meister, Sieger deutschsprachiger Nachname, Familienname

Letter map: champion vs Pollock

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

8 ch
champion
7 ch
Pollock

Role in the sentence - champion and Pollock

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: champion is anoun and Pollockaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58661, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

champion is recorded at frequency rank #8,693, 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 58661, this pair ranks #854,104 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of champion vs Pollock

Shared letters: cop. Private to "champion": ahimn. Private to "Pollock": kl.

"champion" · 8 letters · shape CCVCCVVC  ·  "Pollock" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • championcahmpion · cchampion · chamipon · chammpion · champino · championn · champoin · champpion
  • Pollockopllock · plolock · pollcok · pollocck · pollockk · pollokc · polock · pololck

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "champion" for "Pollock" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "champion" is a noun and "Pollock" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "champion" or "Pollock" show up more?
"champion" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,693 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.

After this comparison

Pair "champion" vs "Pollock" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "champion" 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 #854,104 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "champion" 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 #854,104 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