communityvshighlightsConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#2,760
“community” frequency rank
#8,880
“highlights” frequency rank
11640
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature community highlights
Definition politische Gemeinde 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs highlight

Letter map: community vs highlights

Shared letters muted; letters that set community and highlights apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. community runs 9 letters (CVCCVCVCV) against highlights's 10 (CVCCCVCCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
community
10 ch
highlights

Part-of-speech tell for community / highlights

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: community is anoun and highlightsaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11640, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

community is recorded at frequency rank #2,760, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. highlights is at rank #8,880, 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 11640, this pair ranks #1,968,740 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of community vs highlights

Shared letters: it. Private to "community": cmnouy. Private to "highlights": ghls.

"community" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVCV  ·  "highlights" · 10 letters · shape CVCCCVCCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • communityccommunity · cmomunity · commnuity · commuinty · communitty · communityy · communiyt · communnity
  • highlightshgihlights · hhighlights · higghlights · highhlights · highilghts · highlgihts · highligghts · highlighhts

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "community" and "highlights" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "community" is a noun and "highlights" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "community" vs "highlights" - which ranks higher?
"community" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,760 in our German list, against #8,880 for "highlights". 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 "community" and "highlights". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "community" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "highlights" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,968,740 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "community" and "highlights" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "highlights 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 #1,968,740 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