communityvsimagesWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#2,760
“community” frequency rank
#14,328
“images” frequency rank
17088
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature community images
Definition politische Gemeinde 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs image

Letter map: community vs images

Shared letters muted; letters that set community and images apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. community runs 9 letters (CVCCVCVCV) against images's 6 (VCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
community
6 ch
images

Role in the sentence - community and images

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: community is anoun and imagesaverb. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17088, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

community is recorded at frequency rank #2,760, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. images is at rank #14,328, 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 17088, this pair ranks #1,930,451 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of community vs images

Shared letters: im. Private to "community": cnotuy. Private to "images": aegs.

"community" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVCV  ·  "images" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • communityccommunity · cmomunity · commnuity · commuinty · communitty · communityy · communiyt · communnity
  • imagesiamges · imaegs · imagess · imagges · imagse · imgaes · immages · miages

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "community" and "images" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "community" is a noun and "images" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "community" or "images" show up more?
"community" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,760 in our German list, against #14,328 for "images". 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 "images". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "community" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "images" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,930,451 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "community" and "images" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "images 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 #1,930,451 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