evenvsmontWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#18,532
“even” frequency rank
#20,007
“mont” frequency rank
38539
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature even mont
Definition eben, ausgeglichen der Berg

Letter map: even vs mont

Shared letters muted; letters that set even and mont apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. even (VCVC) and mont (CVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

4 ch
even
4 ch
mont

Part-of-speech tell for even / mont

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: even is anadjective and montanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38539, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

even is recorded at frequency rank #18,532, classified as anadj, pronounced […]. mont is at rank #20,007, 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 38539, this pair ranks #1,561,282 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of even vs mont

Shared letters: n. Private to "even": ev. Private to "mont": mot.

"even" · 4 letters · shape VCVC  ·  "mont" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • eveneevn · evenn · evne · evven · veen
  • montmmont · mnot · monnt · montt · motn · omnt

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "even" and "mont" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "even" is an adjective and "mont" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "even" vs "mont" - which ranks higher?
"even" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #18,532 in our German list, against #20,007 for "mont". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "even" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mont" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,561,282 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "even" and "mont" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mont 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 #1,561,282 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