flogenvsflowerWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#14,567
“flogen” frequency rank
#32,525
“flower” frequency rank
47092
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature flogen flower
Definition 1. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs fliegen Blume

Letter map: flogen vs flower

Shared letters muted; letters that set flogen and flower apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

6 ch
flogen
6 ch
flower

Part-of-speech tell for flogen / flower

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: flogen is averb and floweranoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47092, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

flogen is recorded at frequency rank #14,567, classified as averb, pronounced [floːɡn̩]. flower is at rank #32,525, 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 47092, this pair ranks #1,296,434 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of flogen vs flower

Shared letters: eflo. Private to "flogen": gn. Private to "flower": rw.

"flogen" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC  ·  "flower" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • flogenfflogen · flgoen · fllogen · floegn · flogenn · floggen · flogne · lfogen
  • flowerfflower · fllower · floewr · flowerr · flowre · flowwer · flwoer · folwer

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "flogen" for "flower" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "flogen" is a verb and "flower" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "flogen" vs "flower" - which ranks higher?
"flogen" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,567 in our German list, against #32,525 for "flower". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "flogen" and "flower". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "flogen" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "flower" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,296,434 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "flogen" and "flower" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "flower 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 #1,296,434 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