fingersvsVossWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#35,771
“fingers” frequency rank
#10,773
“Voss” frequency rank
46544
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature fingers Voss
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs finger Fuchs

Letter map: fingers vs Voss

Shared letters muted; letters that set fingers and Voss apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. fingers runs 7 letters (CVCCVCC) against Voss's 4 (CVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
fingers
4 ch
Voss

Role in the sentence - fingers and Voss

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: fingers is averb and Vossanoun. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46544, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

fingers is recorded at frequency rank #35,771, classified as averb, pronounced […]. Voss is at rank #10,773, 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 46544, this pair ranks #1,315,418 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of fingers vs Voss

Shared letters: s. Private to "fingers": efginr. Private to "Voss": ov.

"fingers" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC  ·  "Voss" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • fingersffingers · figners · finegrs · fingerrs · fingerss · fingesr · finggers · fingres
  • Vossovss · voß · vsos · vvoss

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "fingers" and "Voss" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "fingers" is a verb and "Voss" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "fingers" vs "Voss" - which ranks higher?
"Voss" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,773 in our German list, against #35,771 for "fingers". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "fingers" and "Voss". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "fingers" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Voss" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,315,418 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "fingers" and "Voss" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fingers 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 #1,315,418 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