GräservsgroberTell them apart

Quick tell: Gräser is a noun, grober is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#33,096
“Gräser” frequency rank
#20,943
“grober” frequency rank
54039
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Gräser grober
Definition Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Gras Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs grob

Where the eye mixes Gräser and grober

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.

6 ch
Gräser
6 ch
grober

Look-alike desk: Gräser vs grober

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: Gräser is [ˈɡʁɛːzɐ] while grober is [ɡʁoːbɐ]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54039, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Gräser is recorded at frequency rank #33,096, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈɡʁɛːzɐ]. grober is at rank #20,943, tagged as anadj, pronounced [ɡʁoːbɐ].

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 54039, this pair ranks #1,034,472 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Gräser vs grober

Shared letters: egr. Private to "Gräser": . Private to "grober": bo.

"Gräser" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC  ·  "grober" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • groberggrober · gorber · grboer · grobber · groberr · grobre · groebr · grrober

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Gräser" for "grober" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Gräser" is a noun and "grober" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Gräser" or "grober" show up more?
"grober" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #20,943 in our German list, against #33,096 for "Gräser". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "Gräser" and "grober" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Gräser" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "grober" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,034,472 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Gräser" and "grober" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Gräser vs grave". 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 #1,034,472 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