geravsloreTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#12,085
“gera” frequency rank
#26,091
“lore” frequency rank
38176
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature gera lore
Definition tun Überlieferung

Letter map: gera vs lore

Shared letters muted; letters that set gera and lore apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. gera and lore follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
gera
4 ch
lore

Part-of-speech tell for gera / lore

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: gera is averb and loreanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38176, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

gera is recorded at frequency rank #12,085, classified as averb, pronounced […]. lore is at rank #26,091, 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 38176, this pair ranks #1,570,892 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of gera vs lore

Shared letters: er. Private to "gera": ag. Private to "lore": lo.

"gera" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "lore" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • geraegra · gerra · ggera · grea
  • lorellore · loer · lorre · lroe · olre

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "gera" for "lore" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "gera" is a verb and "lore" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "gera" or "lore"?
"gera" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,085 in our German list, against #26,091 for "lore". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "gera" vs "lore" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "gera" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "lore" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,570,892 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "gera" and "lore" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "lore 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 #1,570,892 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