granvslodgeTell them apart

Quick tell: gran is a adjective, lodge is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“gran” is an adjective and “lodge” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#13,386
“gran” frequency rank
#26,090
“lodge” frequency rank
39476
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature gran lodge
Definition groß, hochgewachsen der Raum eines Pförtners im Haupteingang eines Gebäudes

Letter map: gran vs lodge

Shared letters muted; letters that set gran and lodge apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. gran runs 4 letters (CCVC) against lodge's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
gran
5 ch
lodge

Part-of-speech tell for gran / lodge

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: gran is anadjective and lodgeanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39476, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

gran is recorded at frequency rank #13,386, classified as anadj, pronounced […]. lodge is at rank #26,090, 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 39476, this pair ranks #1,535,752 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of gran vs lodge

Shared letters: g. Private to "gran": anr. Private to "lodge": delo.

"gran" · 4 letters · shape CCVC  ·  "lodge" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • granggran · grann · grna · grran · rgan
  • lodgeldoge · llodge · loddge · lodeg · lodgge · logde · oldge

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "gran" for "lodge" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "gran" is an adjective and "lodge" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "gran" vs "lodge" - which ranks higher?
"gran" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,386 in our German list, against #26,090 for "lodge". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "gran" vs "lodge" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "gran" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "lodge" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,535,752 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "gran" and "lodge" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "lodge 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 #1,535,752 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