fightingvsofficeWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#42,485
“fighting” frequency rank
#5,205
“office” frequency rank
47690
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature fighting office
Definition Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs fight Arbeitsraum für Verwaltung und Planung: Büro

Letter map: fighting vs office

Shared letters muted; letters that set fighting and office apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. fighting runs 8 letters (CVCCCVCC) against office's 6 (VCCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
fighting
6 ch
office

Part-of-speech tell for fighting / office

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: fighting is averb and officeanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47690, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

fighting is recorded at frequency rank #42,485, classified as averb, pronounced […]. office is at rank #5,205, 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 47690, this pair ranks #1,275,487 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of fighting vs office

Shared letters: fi. Private to "fighting": ghnt. Private to "office": ceo.

"fighting" · 8 letters · shape CVCCCVCC  ·  "office" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • fightingffighting · fgihting · figghting · fighhting · fighitng · fightign · fightingg · fightinng
  • officefofice · offcie · officce · offiec · ofice · ofifce

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "fighting" for "office" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "fighting" is a verb and "office" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "fighting" or "office" show up more?
"office" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,205 in our German list, against #42,485 for "fighting". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "fighting" vs "office" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "fighting" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "office" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,275,487 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "fighting" and "office" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fighting 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 #1,275,487 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