Which to use
“drucken” is a verb and “Drucker” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #7,594
- “drucken” frequency rank
- #7,595
- “Drucker” frequency rank
- 15189
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | Drucker | |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | durch Druck vervielfältigen | Peripheriegerät, das digitale Zeichen und Bilder zu Papier bringt und ausgibt |
Where the eye mixes drucken and Drucker
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. drucken and Drucker follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CCVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: drucken vs Drucker
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: drucken is [ˈdʁʊkn̩] while Drucker is [ˈdʁʊkɐ]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by a single letter - n in “drucken” becomes r in “Drucker”, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 15189, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
drucken is recorded at frequency rank #7,594, classified as averb, pronounced [ˈdʁʊkn̩]. Drucker is at rank #7,595, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈdʁʊkɐ].
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 15189, this pair ranks #1,945,733 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of drucken vs Drucker
Shared letters: cdekru. Private to "drucken": n. Private to "Drucker": -.
"drucken" · 7 letters · shape CCVCCVC · "Drucker" · 7 letters · shape CCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "drucken" and "Drucker" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary German text, does "drucken" or "Drucker" show up more?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "drucken" and "Drucker" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "drucken" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "Drucker" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #1,945,733 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "drucken" and "Drucker" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "drucken vs Drüsen". 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 #1,945,733 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.