Which to use
“director” is a noun and “direkter” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #11,629
- “director” frequency rank
- #7,455
- “direkter” frequency rank
- 19084
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | director | direkter |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Person, die etwas leitet; Direktor, Leiter | Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs direkt |
Letter map: director vs direkter
Shared letters muted; letters that set director and direkter apart highlighted. Shared run: 6. director and direkter follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Part-of-speech tell for director / direkter
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: director is anoun and direkteranadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 19084, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
director is recorded at frequency rank #11,629, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. direkter is at rank #7,455, tagged as anadj, pronounced [diˈʁɛktɐ].
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 19084, this pair ranks #1,912,001 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of director vs direkter
Shared letters: deirt. Private to "director": co. Private to "direkter": k.
"director" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC · "direkter" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "director" and "direkter" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "director" vs "direkter" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
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- Full dictionary entry for "director" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "direkter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #1,912,001 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "director" and "direkter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "director 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 #1,912,001 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.