championsvsGordonTell them apart

Quick tell: champions is a verb, Gordon is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“champions” is a verb and “Gordon” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#4,501
“champions” frequency rank
#8,568
“Gordon” frequency rank
13069
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature champions Gordon
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs champion englischer männlicher Vorname

Letter map: champions vs Gordon

Shared letters muted; letters that set champions and Gordon apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. champions runs 9 letters (CCVCCVVCC) against Gordon's 6 (CVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
champions
6 ch
Gordon

Part-of-speech tell for champions / Gordon

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: champions is averb and Gordonaname. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13069, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

champions is recorded at frequency rank #4,501, classified as averb, pronounced […]. Gordon is at rank #8,568, 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 13069, this pair ranks #1,960,303 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of champions vs Gordon

Shared letters: no. Private to "champions": achimps. Private to "Gordon": dgr.

"champions" · 9 letters · shape CCVCCVVCC  ·  "Gordon" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • champions ← cahmpions · cchampions · chamipons · chammpions · champinos · championns · championss · champiosn
  • Gordon ← ggordon · godron · gorddon · gordno · gordonn · gorodn · gorrdon · grodon

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "champions" and "Gordon" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "champions" is a verb and "Gordon" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "champions" vs "Gordon" - which ranks higher?
"champions" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,501 in our German list, against #8,568 for "Gordon". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "champions" and "Gordon". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "champions" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Gordon" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,960,303 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "champions" and "Gordon" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Gordon 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 #1,960,303 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