granvsstimmtsWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: gran is a adjective, stimmts is an abbrev, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#13,386
“gran” frequency rank
#36,649
“stimmts” frequency rank
50035
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature gran stimmts
Definition groß, hochgewachsen stimmt es

Letter map: gran vs stimmts

Shared letters muted; letters that set gran and stimmts apart highlighted. No shared letter run. gran runs 4 letters (CCVC) against stimmts's 7 (CCVCCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
gran
7 ch
stimmts

Part-of-speech tell for gran / stimmts

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: gran is anadjective and stimmtsanabbrev. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50035, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

gran is recorded at frequency rank #13,386, classified as anadj, pronounced […]. stimmts is at rank #36,649, tagged as anabbrev, 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 50035, this pair ranks #1,189,067 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of gran vs stimmts

Shared letters: none. Private to "gran": agnr. Private to "stimmts": imst.

"gran" · 4 letters · shape CCVC  ·  "stimmts" · 7 letters · shape CCVCCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • gran ← ggran · grann · grna · grran · rgan
  • stimmts ← sitmmts · sstimmts · stimmtss · stimmtts · stimtms · stimts · stmimts · sttimmts

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "gran" and "stimmts" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "gran" is an adjective and "stimmts" an abbrev, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "gran" or "stimmts" show up more?
"gran" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,386 in our German list, against #36,649 for "stimmts". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "gran" vs "stimmts" 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 "stimmts" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,189,067 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "gran" and "stimmts" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs stimmts". 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 #1,189,067 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