gutsvspostsTell them apart

Quick tell: guts is a noun, posts is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#30,595
“guts” frequency rank
#14,390
“posts” frequency rank
44985
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature guts posts
Definition Plural des Substantivs gut 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs post

Letter map: guts vs posts

Shared letters muted; letters that set guts and posts apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. guts runs 4 letters (CVCC) against posts's 5 (CVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
guts
5 ch
posts

Part-of-speech tell for guts / posts

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: guts is anoun and postsaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44985, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

guts is recorded at frequency rank #30,595, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. posts is at rank #14,390, tagged as averb, 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 44985, this pair ranks #1,368,254 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of guts vs posts

Shared letters: st. Private to "guts": gu. Private to "posts": op.

"guts" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "posts" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • gutsgguts · gtus · gust · gutss · gutts · ugts
  • postsopsts · possts · postss · postts · potss · pposts · psots

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "guts" and "posts" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "guts" is a noun and "posts" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "guts" vs "posts" - which ranks higher?
"posts" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,390 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.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "guts" and "posts".

  • Full dictionary entry for "guts" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "posts" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,368,254 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "guts" and "posts" 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 #1,368,254 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