ClausenvscommunityTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#48,807
“Clausen” frequency rank
#2,760
“community” frequency rank
51567
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Clausen community
Definition eine Ortsgemeinde in Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland politische Gemeinde

Letter map: Clausen vs community

Shared letters muted; letters that set Clausen and community apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

7 ch
Clausen
9 ch
community

Grammar separator: Clausen vs community

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Clausen is aname and communityanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51567, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Clausen is recorded at frequency rank #48,807, classified as aname, pronounced […]. community is at rank #2,760, 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 51567, this pair ranks #1,130,510 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Clausen vs community

Shared letters: cnu. Private to "Clausen": aels. Private to "community": imoty.

"Clausen" · 7 letters · shape CCVVCVC  ·  "community" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Clausencalusen · cclausen · clasuen · clauesn · clausenn · clausne · claussen · cllausen
  • communityccommunity · cmomunity · commnuity · commuinty · communitty · communityy · communiyt · communnity

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Clausen" for "community" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Clausen" is a name and "community" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "Clausen" or "community"?
"community" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,760 in our German list, against #48,807 for "Clausen". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "Clausen" and "community". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Clausen" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "community" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,130,510 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Clausen" and "community" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Clausen 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 #1,130,510 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