evenvsjudgeWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: even is a adjective, judge is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“even” is an adjective and “judge” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#18,532
“even” frequency rank
#37,006
“judge” frequency rank
55538
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature even judge
Definition eben, ausgeglichen Richter

Letter map: even vs judge

Shared letters muted; letters that set even and judge apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. even runs 4 letters (VCVC) against judge's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
even
5 ch
judge

Role in the sentence - even and judge

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: even is anadjective and judgeanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55538, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

even is recorded at frequency rank #18,532, classified as anadj, pronounced […]. judge is at rank #37,006, tagged as anoun, 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 55538, this pair ranks #975,674 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of even vs judge

Shared letters: e. Private to "even": nv. Private to "judge": dgju.

"even" · 4 letters · shape VCVC  ·  "judge" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • eveneevn · evenn · evne · evven · veen
  • judgejduge · jjudge · juddge · judeg · judgge · jugde · ujdge

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "even" for "judge" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "even" is an adjective and "judge" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "even" or "judge"?
"even" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #18,532 in our German list, against #37,006 for "judge". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "even" and "judge". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "even" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "judge" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #975,674 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "even" and "judge" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "judge 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 #975,674 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