# empires vs et

> German confusable word pair

## The two words

### empires
*noun · IPA […] · frequency rank #35,743*
Plural des Substantivs empire

### et
*verb · IPA […] · frequency rank #1,447*
Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs eat

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/de/vs/empires-vs-et