granvsreadyTell them apart

Which to use

“gran” and “ready” are a confusable German pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#13,386
“gran” frequency rank
#18,370
“ready” frequency rank
31756
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature gran ready
Definition groß, hochgewachsen bereit, fertig

Letter map: gran vs ready

Shared letters muted; letters that set gran and ready apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. gran runs 4 letters (CCVC) against ready's 5 (CVVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
gran
5 ch
ready

Corpus notes: gran and ready

gran and ready are indexed as a confusable German pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 31756, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

gran is recorded at frequency rank #13,386, classified as anadj, pronounced […]. ready is at rank #18,370, 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 31756, this pair ranks #1,721,715 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of gran vs ready

Shared letters: ar. Private to "gran": gn. Private to "ready": dey.

"gran" · 4 letters · shape CCVC  ·  "ready" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • granggran · grann · grna · grran · rgan
  • readyerady · raedy · readdy · readyy · reayd · reday · rready

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "gran" and "ready" be used interchangeably?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
In ordinary German text, does "gran" or "ready" show up more?
"gran" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,386 in our German list, against #18,370 for "ready". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "gran" and "ready". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "gran" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "ready" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,721,715 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "gran" and "ready" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs ready". 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 #1,721,715 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