enterprisesvshighlightsTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#45,896
“enterprises” frequency rank
#8,880
“highlights” frequency rank
54776
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature enterprises highlights
Definition Plural des Substantivs enterprise 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs highlight

Letter map: enterprises vs highlights

Shared letters muted; letters that set enterprises and highlights apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. enterprises runs 11 letters (VCCVCCCVCVC) against highlights's 10 (CVCCCVCCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

11 ch
enterprises
10 ch
highlights

Part-of-speech tell for enterprises / highlights

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: enterprises is anoun and highlightsaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54776, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

enterprises is recorded at frequency rank #45,896, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. highlights is at rank #8,880, 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 54776, this pair ranks #1,005,508 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of enterprises vs highlights

Shared letters: ist. Private to "enterprises": enpr. Private to "highlights": ghl.

"enterprises" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCCVCVC  ·  "highlights" · 10 letters · shape CVCCCVCCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • enterprisesenetrprises · ennterprises · enteprrises · enterpirses · enterpprises · enterpriess · enterprisess · enterprisses
  • highlightshgihlights · hhighlights · higghlights · highhlights · highilghts · highlgihts · highligghts · highlighhts

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "enterprises" and "highlights" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "enterprises" is a noun and "highlights" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "enterprises" or "highlights" show up more?
"highlights" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,880 in our German list, against #45,896 for "enterprises". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "enterprises" vs "highlights" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "enterprises" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "highlights" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,005,508 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "enterprises" and "highlights" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "enterprises 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 #1,005,508 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