Which to use
“friends” is a noun and “neisse” is an unknown - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #11,235
- “friends” frequency rank
- #24,447
- “neisse” frequency rank
- 35682
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | friends | neisse |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Plural des Substantivs friend | Illativ Plural des Personalpronomens nemad „sie“ |
Letter map: friends vs neisse
Shared letters muted; letters that set friends and neisse apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. friends runs 7 letters (CCVVCCC) against neisse's 6 (CVVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Grammar separator: friends vs neisse
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: friends is anoun and neisseanunknown. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35682, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
friends is recorded at frequency rank #11,235, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. neisse is at rank #24,447, tagged as anunknown, 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 35682, this pair ranks #1,634,107 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of friends vs neisse
Shared letters: eins. Private to "friends": dfr. Private to "neisse": -.
"friends" · 7 letters · shape CCVVCCC · "neisse" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "friends" and "neisse" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary German text, does "friends" or "neisse" show up more?
Useful next steps
You've compared "friends" and "neisse". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "friends" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "neisse" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #1,634,107 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "friends" and "neisse" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "neisse 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 #1,634,107 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.