extrasvskitchenConfusable pair

Which to use

“extras” and “kitchen” are a confusable German pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#23,927
“extras” frequency rank
#27,372
“kitchen” frequency rank
51299
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature extras kitchen
Definition Plural des Substantivs extra Raum um Essen zuzubereiten; Küche

Letter map: extras vs kitchen

Shared letters muted; letters that set extras and kitchen apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. extras runs 6 letters (VCCCVC) against kitchen's 7 (CVCCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
extras
7 ch
kitchen

Corpus notes: extras and kitchen

extras and kitchen are indexed as a confusable German pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51299, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

extras is recorded at frequency rank #23,927, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. kitchen is at rank #27,372, 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 51299, this pair ranks #1,140,775 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of extras vs kitchen

Shared letters: et. Private to "extras": arsx. Private to "kitchen": chikn.

"extras" · 6 letters · shape VCCCVC  ·  "kitchen" · 7 letters · shape CVCCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • extrasetxras · exrtas · extars · extrass · extrras · extrsa · exttras · exxtras
  • kitcheniktchen · kicthen · kitcchen · kitcehn · kitchenn · kitchhen · kitchne · kithcen

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "extras" and "kitchen" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "extras" vs "kitchen" - which ranks higher?
"extras" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #23,927 in our German list, against #27,372 for "kitchen". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "extras" vs "kitchen" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "extras" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "kitchen" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,140,775 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "extras" and "kitchen" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "kitchen 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 #1,140,775 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