DesignsvsdesigntWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#16,676
“Designs” frequency rank
#41,740
“designt” frequency rank
58416
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Designs designt
Definition Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Design 2. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs designen

Where the eye mixes Designs and designt

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. Designs and designt follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
Designs
7 ch
designt

Look-alike desk: Designs vs designt

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: Designs is [diˈzaɪ̯ns] while designt is [ˌdiˈzaɪ̯nt]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by a single letter - s in “Designs” becomes t in “designt”, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58416, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Designs is recorded at frequency rank #16,676, classified as anoun, pronounced [diˈzaɪ̯ns]. designt is at rank #41,740, tagged as averb, pronounced [ˌdiˈzaɪ̯nt].

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 58416, this pair ranks #863,583 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Designs vs designt

Shared letters: degins. Private to "Designs": -. Private to "designt": t.

"Designs" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCC  ·  "designt" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Designs ← ddesigns · deisgns · desgins · desiggns · designns · designss · desigsn · desings
  • designt ← ddesignt · deisgnt · desgint · desiggnt · designnt · designtt · desigtn · desingt

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "Designs" and "designt" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Designs" is a noun and "designt" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Designs" vs "designt" - which ranks higher?
"Designs" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,676 in our German list, against #41,740 for "designt". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "Designs" and "designt" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Designs" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "designt" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #863,583 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Designs" and "designt" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "designed vs designt". 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 #863,583 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