geravstuttiWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: gera is a verb, tutti is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#12,085
“gera” frequency rank
#38,461
“tutti” frequency rank
50546
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature gera tutti
Definition tun Männlich Plural des Adjektivs tutto

Letter map: gera vs tutti

Shared letters muted; letters that set gera and tutti apart highlighted. No shared letter run. gera runs 4 letters (CVCV) against tutti's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
gera
5 ch
tutti

Part-of-speech tell for gera / tutti

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: gera is averb and tuttianadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50546, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

gera is recorded at frequency rank #12,085, classified as averb, pronounced […]. tutti is at rank #38,461, tagged as anadj, 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 50546, this pair ranks #1,169,563 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of gera vs tutti

Shared letters: none. Private to "gera": aegr. Private to "tutti": itu.

"gera" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "tutti" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • gera ← egra · gerra · ggera · grea
  • tutti ← ttuti · ttutti · tuti · tutit · uttti

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "gera" for "tutti" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "gera" is a verb and "tutti" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "gera" vs "tutti" - which ranks higher?
"gera" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,085 in our German list, against #38,461 for "tutti". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "gera" and "tutti". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "gera" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "tutti" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,169,563 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "gera" and "tutti" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs tutti". 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 #1,169,563 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