coinvscoraWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#40,464
“coin” frequency rank
#28,594
“cora” frequency rank
69058
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature coin cora
Definition Winkel, Ecke 3. Person Singular Präsens Indikativ des Verbs corar

Letter map: coin vs cora

Shared letters muted; letters that set coin and cora apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
coin
4 ch
cora

Part-of-speech tell for coin / cora

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: coin is anoun and coraaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 69058, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

coin is recorded at frequency rank #40,464, classified as anoun, pronounced [kwɛ̃]. cora is at rank #28,594, tagged as averb, 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 69058, this pair ranks #488,347 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of coin vs cora

Shared letters: co. Private to "coin": in. Private to "cora": ar.

"coin" · 4 letters · shape CVVC  ·  "cora" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • coinccoin · coinn · coni · ocin
  • coraccora · coar · corra · croa · ocra

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "coin" and "cora" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "coin" is a noun and "cora" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "coin" or "cora" show up more?
"cora" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28,594 in our German list, against #40,464 for "coin". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "coin" vs "cora" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "coin" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "cora" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #488,347 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "coin" and "cora" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "coin vs coli". 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 #488,347 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