formavspriceWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#42,495
“forma” frequency rank
#14,654
“price” frequency rank
57149
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature forma price
Definition Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs formar (unabhängig von Person und Numerus) Preis

Letter map: forma vs price

Shared letters muted; letters that set forma and price apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. forma (CVCCV) and price (CCVCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch
forma
5 ch
price

Part-of-speech tell for forma / price

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: forma is averb and priceanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 5 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57149, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

forma is recorded at frequency rank #42,495, classified as averb, pronounced […]. price is at rank #14,654, 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 57149, this pair ranks #912,597 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of forma vs price

Shared letters: r. Private to "forma": afmo. Private to "price": ceip.

"forma" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "price" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • forma ← fforma · fomra · foram · formma · forrma · froma · ofrma
  • price ← pirce · pprice · prcie · pricce · priec · prrice · rpice

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "forma" and "price" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "forma" is a verb and "price" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "forma" vs "price" - which ranks higher?
"price" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,654 in our German list, against #42,495 for "forma". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "forma" and "price".

  • Full dictionary entry for "forma" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "price" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #912,597 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "forma" and "price" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "forma 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 #912,597 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