dantevsDatenWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#11,844
“dante” frequency rank
#808
“Daten” frequency rank
12652
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature dante Daten
Definition Partizip Präsens des Verbs dare Sammlung ermittelter/gewonnener Messwerte oder auch statistischer Angaben zu etwas

Letter map: dante vs Daten

Shared letters muted; letters that set dante and Daten apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

5 ch
dante
5 ch
Daten

Role in the sentence - dante and Daten

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: dante is averb and Datenanoun. On the page they are an anagram pair: the same letters reordered. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12652, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

dante is recorded at frequency rank #11,844, classified as averb, pronounced […]. Daten is at rank #808, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈdaːtn̩].

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 12652, this pair ranks #1,962,878 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of dante vs Daten

Shared letters: adent. Private to "dante": -. Private to "Daten": -.

"dante" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "Daten" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • danteadnte · danet · dannte · dantte · ddante · dnate
  • Datenadten · daetn · datenn · datne · datten · ddaten · dtaen

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "dante" and "Daten" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "dante" is a verb and "Daten" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "dante" vs "Daten" - which ranks higher?
"Daten" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #808 in our German list, against #11,844 for "dante". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "dante" and "Daten". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "dante" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Daten" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,962,878 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "dante" and "Daten" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dante 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 #1,962,878 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