community vs strong, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#2,760
“community” frequency rank: #20,073
“strong” frequency rank: 22833
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	community	strong
Definition	politische Gemeinde	stark

Where the spellings diverge

Shared letters are muted; the letters that actually set community and strong apart are highlighted. They share 2 letters in sequence, which is exactly why the eye skips the difference.

9 ch

community

6 ch

strong

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: community is anoun and stronganadjective. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22833, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

community is recorded at frequency rank #2,760, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. strong is at rank #20,073, tagged as anadj, 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 22833, this pair ranks #1,869,170 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of community vs strong

Shared letters: not. Private to "community": cimuy. Private to "strong": grs.

"community" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVCV · "strong" · 6 letters · shape CCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

community ← ccommunity · cmomunity · commnuity · commuinty · communitty · communityy · communiyt · communnity
strong ← srtong · sstrong · storng · strnog · strogn · strongg · stronng · strrong

Frequency comparison

community#2,760

strong#20,073

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "community" and "strong" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "community" is a noun and "strong" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "community" or "strong"?

"community" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,760 in our German list, against #20,073 for "strong". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Remembering community vs strong

The fastest way to pick the right one every time.

Check the role first: if you need a noun, it's “community”; for an adjective, it's “strong”.
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