EuropeanvstempsWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#7,604
“European” frequency rank
#37,813
“temps” frequency rank
45417
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature European temps
Definition Europäer 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs temp

Letter map: European vs temps

Shared letters muted; letters that set European and temps apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. European runs 8 letters (VVCVCVVC) against temps's 5 (CVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
European
5 ch
temps

Part-of-speech tell for European / temps

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: European is anoun and tempsaverb. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45417, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

European is recorded at frequency rank #7,604, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. temps is at rank #37,813, 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 45417, this pair ranks #1,353,725 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of European vs temps

Shared letters: ep. Private to "European": anoru. Private to "temps": mst.

"European" · 8 letters · shape VVCVCVVC  ·  "temps" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Europeaneruopean · euorpean · euroepan · europaen · europeann · europena · europpean · eurpoean
  • tempsetmps · temmps · tempps · tempss · temsp · tepms · tmeps · ttemps

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "European" and "temps" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "European" is a noun and "temps" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "European" or "temps"?
"European" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,604 in our German list, against #37,813 for "temps". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "European" and "temps".

  • Full dictionary entry for "European" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "temps" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,353,725 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "European" and "temps" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs temps". 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 #1,353,725 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