GewinnsvsgewinntTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#32,566
“Gewinns” frequency rank
#2,154
“gewinnt” frequency rank
34720
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Gewinns gewinnt
Definition Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Gewinn 2. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs gewinnen

Where the eye mixes Gewinns and gewinnt

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. Gewinns and gewinnt follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
Gewinns
7 ch
gewinnt

Visual trap between Gewinns and gewinnt

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: Gewinns is [ɡəˈvɪns] while gewinnt is [ɡəˈvɪnt]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by a single letter - s in “Gewinns” becomes t in “gewinnt”, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34720, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Gewinns is recorded at frequency rank #32,566, classified as anoun, pronounced [ɡəˈvɪns]. gewinnt is at rank #2,154, tagged as averb, pronounced [ɡəˈvɪnt].

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 34720, this pair ranks #1,656,872 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Gewinns vs gewinnt

Shared letters: eginw. Private to "Gewinns": s. Private to "gewinnt": t.

"Gewinns" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCC  ·  "gewinnt" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Gewinnsegwinns · geiwnns · gewinnss · gewins · gewinsn · gewnins · gewwinns · ggewinns
  • gewinntegwinnt · geiwnnt · gewinntt · gewint · gewintn · gewnint · gewwinnt · ggewinnt

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Gewinns" for "gewinnt" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Gewinns" is a noun and "gewinnt" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Gewinns" or "gewinnt" show up more?
"gewinnt" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,154 in our German list, against #32,566 for "Gewinns". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Gewinns" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "gewinnt" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,656,872 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Gewinns" and "gewinnt" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "gesinnt vs Gewinns". 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 #1,656,872 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