effectsvsPollockTell them apart

Quick tell: effects is a verb, Pollock is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“effects” is a verb and “Pollock” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#24,305
“effects” frequency rank
#49,968
“Pollock” frequency rank
74273
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature effects Pollock
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs effect deutschsprachiger Nachname, Familienname

Letter map: effects vs Pollock

Shared letters muted; letters that set effects and Pollock apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

7 ch
effects
7 ch
Pollock

Part-of-speech tell for effects / Pollock

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: effects is averb and Pollockaname. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 7 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 74273, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

effects is recorded at frequency rank #24,305, classified as averb, pronounced […]. Pollock is at rank #49,968, tagged as aname, 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 74273, this pair ranks #337,803 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of effects vs Pollock

Shared letters: c. Private to "effects": efst. Private to "Pollock": klop.

"effects" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCC  ·  "Pollock" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • effectsefects · efefcts · effcets · effeccts · effecst · effectss · effectts · effetcs
  • Pollockopllock · plolock · pollcok · pollocck · pollockk · pollokc · polock · pololck

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "effects" and "Pollock" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "effects" is a verb and "Pollock" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "effects" vs "Pollock" - which ranks higher?
"effects" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #24,305 in our German list, against #49,968 for "Pollock". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "effects" and "Pollock".

  • Full dictionary entry for "effects" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Pollock" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #337,803 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "effects" and "Pollock" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Pollock 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 #337,803 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