edited vs wells, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“edited” and “wells” are a confusable German pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#36,895
“edited” frequency rank: #17,186
“wells” frequency rank: 54081
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	edited	wells
Definition	Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs edit	3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs well

Letter map: edited vs wells

Shared letters muted; letters that set edited and wells apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. edited runs 6 letters (VCVCVC) against wells's 5 (CVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch

edited

5 ch

wells

Pair insight - edited / wells

edited and wells are indexed as a confusable German pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54081, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

edited is recorded at frequency rank #36,895, classified as averb, pronounced […]. wells is at rank #17,186, tagged as averb, 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 54081, this pair ranks #1,032,881 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of edited vs wells

Shared letters: e. Private to "edited": dit. Private to "wells": lsw.

"edited" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVC · "wells" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

edited ← deited · eddited · edietd · editde · editedd · editted · edtied · eidted
wells ← ewlls · wellss · welsl · wlels · wwells

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "edited" and "wells" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.

Frequency check: "edited" vs "wells" - which ranks higher?

"wells" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #17,186 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

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Full dictionary entry for "edited" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "wells" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,032,881 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"edited" and "wells" 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 #1,032,881 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.