championsvstrendsWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#4,501
“champions” frequency rank
#6,015
“trends” frequency rank
10516
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature champions trends
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs champion Plural des Substantivs trend

Letter map: champions vs trends

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

9 ch
champions
6 ch
trends

Role in the sentence - champions and trends

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: champions is averb and trendsanoun. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10516, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

champions is recorded at frequency rank #4,501, classified as averb, pronounced […]. trends is at rank #6,015, tagged as anoun, 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 10516, this pair ranks #1,974,746 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of champions vs trends

Shared letters: ns. Private to "champions": achimop. Private to "trends": dert.

"champions" · 9 letters · shape CCVCCVVCC  ·  "trends" · 6 letters · shape CCVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • championscahmpions · cchampions · chamipons · chammpions · champinos · championns · championss · champiosn
  • trendsrtends · ternds · tredns · trendds · trendss · trennds · trensd · trneds

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "champions" for "trends" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "champions" is a verb and "trends" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "champions" or "trends" show up more?
"champions" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,501 in our German list, against #6,015 for "trends". 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 "champions" and "trends". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "champions" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "trends" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,974,746 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "champions" and "trends" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs trends". 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 #1,974,746 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