grassvsGrosseTell them apart

Which to use

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

#15,648
“grass” frequency rank
#259
“Grosse” frequency rank
15907
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature grass Grosse
Definition Gras, Rasen Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Gros

Letter map: grass vs Grosse

Shared letters muted; letters that set grass and Grosse apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

5 ch
grass
6 ch
Grosse

Pair insight - grass / Grosse

grass and Grosse 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 15907, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

grass is recorded at frequency rank #15,648, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. Grosse is at rank #259, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈɡʁɔsə].

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 15907, this pair ranks #1,940,180 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of grass vs Grosse

Shared letters: grs. Private to "grass": a. Private to "Grosse": eo.

"grass" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC  ·  "Grosse" · 6 letters · shape CCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • grassgarss · ggrass · graß · grrass · grsas · rgass
  • Grosseggrosse · gorsse · grose · groses · große · grrosse · grsose · rgosse

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "grass" and "Grosse" mean the same thing in a sentence?
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.
Frequency check: "grass" vs "Grosse" - which ranks higher?
"Grosse" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #259 in our German list, against #15,648 for "grass". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "grass" and "Grosse". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "grass" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Grosse" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,940,180 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "grass" and "Grosse" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "grass 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 #1,940,180 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