gripsvsveraConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#43,230
“grips” frequency rank
#8,302
“vera” frequency rank
51532
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature grips vera
Definition Plural des Substantivs grip wahr, regelrecht

Letter map: grips vs vera

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

5 ch
grips
4 ch
vera

Role in the sentence - grips and vera

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: grips is anoun and veraanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51532, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

grips is recorded at frequency rank #43,230, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. vera is at rank #8,302, 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 51532, this pair ranks #1,131,911 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of grips vs vera

Shared letters: r. Private to "grips": gips. Private to "vera": aev.

"grips" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC  ·  "vera" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • grips ← ggrips · girps · gripps · gripss · grisp · grpis · grrips · rgips
  • vera ← evra · vear · verra · vrea · vvera

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "grips" for "vera" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "grips" is a noun and "vera" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "grips" or "vera" show up more?
"vera" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,302 in our German list, against #43,230 for "grips". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "grips" vs "vera" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "grips" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "vera" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,131,911 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "grips" and "vera" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "grips 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 #1,131,911 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