evenvskikaTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#18,532
“even” frequency rank
#30,636
“kika” frequency rank
49168
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature even kika
Definition eben, ausgeglichen gucken

Letter map: even vs kika

Shared letters muted; letters that set even and kika apart highlighted. No shared letter run. even (VCVC) and kika (CVCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

4 ch
even
4 ch
kika

Grammar separator: even vs kika

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: even is anadjective and kikaaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49168, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

even is recorded at frequency rank #18,532, classified as anadj, pronounced […]. kika is at rank #30,636, 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 49168, this pair ranks #1,221,598 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of even vs kika

Shared letters: none. Private to "even": env. Private to "kika": aik.

"even" · 4 letters · shape VCVC  ·  "kika" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • eveneevn · evenn · evne · evven · veen
  • kikaikka · kiak · kikka · kkia · kkika

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "even" and "kika" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "even" is an adjective and "kika" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "even" or "kika" show up more?
"even" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #18,532 in our German list, against #30,636 for "kika". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "even" vs "kika" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "even" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "kika" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,221,598 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "even" and "kika" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "kika 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 #1,221,598 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