gutsvshoppConfusable pair

Quick tell: guts is a noun, hopp is an adverb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“guts” is a noun and “hopp” is an adverb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#30,595
“guts” frequency rank
#15,656
“hopp” frequency rank
46251
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature guts hopp
Definition Plural des Substantivs gut in einer zügigen Art und Weise, oft mit fehlender Sorgfalt

Letter map: guts vs hopp

Shared letters muted; letters that set guts and hopp apart highlighted. No shared letter run. guts and hopp follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
guts
4 ch
hopp

Part-of-speech tell for guts / hopp

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: guts is anoun and hoppanadverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46251, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

guts is recorded at frequency rank #30,595, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. hopp is at rank #15,656, tagged as anadv, 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 46251, this pair ranks #1,325,531 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of guts vs hopp

Shared letters: none. Private to "guts": gstu. Private to "hopp": hop.

"guts" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "hopp" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • gutsgguts · gtus · gust · gutss · gutts · ugts
  • hopphhopp · hop · hpop · ohpp

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "guts" and "hopp" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "guts" is a noun and "hopp" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "guts" or "hopp" show up more?
"hopp" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,656 in our German list, against #30,595 for "guts". 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 "guts" and "hopp". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "guts" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "hopp" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,325,531 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "guts" and "hopp" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "guts 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 #1,325,531 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