editedvspalaceTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#36,895
“edited” frequency rank
#14,886
“palace” frequency rank
51781
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature edited palace
Definition Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs edit ein besonders aufwendig ausgestattetes Gebäude; Palast

Letter map: edited vs palace

Shared letters muted; letters that set edited and palace apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. edited (VCVCVC) and palace (CVCVCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

6 ch
edited
6 ch
palace

Role in the sentence - edited and palace

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: edited is averb and palaceanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 6 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51781, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

edited is recorded at frequency rank #36,895, classified as averb, pronounced […]. palace is at rank #14,886, tagged as anoun, 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 51781, this pair ranks #1,122,271 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of edited vs palace

Shared letters: e. Private to "edited": dit. Private to "palace": aclp.

"edited" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVC  ·  "palace" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • editeddeited · eddited · edietd · editde · editedd · editted · edtied · eidted
  • palaceaplace · paalce · palacce · palaec · palcae · pallace · plaace · ppalace

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "edited" for "palace" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "edited" is a verb and "palace" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "edited" vs "palace" - which ranks higher?
"palace" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,886 in our German list, against #36,895 for "edited". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "edited" and "palace". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "edited" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "palace" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,122,271 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "edited" and "palace" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "edited 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 #1,122,271 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