falconvssungWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#29,119
“falcon” frequency rank
#27,077
“sung” frequency rank
56196
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature falcon sung
Definition der Falke Partizip Perfekt (past participle) des Verbs sing

Letter map: falcon vs sung

Shared letters muted; letters that set falcon and sung apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. falcon runs 6 letters (CVCCVC) against sung's 4 (CVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
falcon
4 ch
sung

Part-of-speech tell for falcon / sung

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: falcon is anoun and sungaverb. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56196, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

falcon is recorded at frequency rank #29,119, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. sung is at rank #27,077, 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 56196, this pair ranks #949,627 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of falcon vs sung

Shared letters: n. Private to "falcon": acflo. Private to "sung": gsu.

"falcon" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC  ·  "sung" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • falcon ← aflcon · faclon · falccon · falcno · falconn · fallcon · falocn · ffalcon
  • sung ← snug · ssung · sugn · sungg · sunng · usng

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "falcon" and "sung" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "falcon" is a noun and "sung" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "falcon" or "sung"?
"sung" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #27,077 in our German list, against #29,119 for "falcon". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "falcon" and "sung". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "falcon" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "sung" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #949,627 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "falcon" and "sung" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "falcon 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 #949,627 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