hitsvsofficeTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#7,337
“hits” frequency rank
#5,205
“office” frequency rank
12542
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hits office
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs hit Arbeitsraum für Verwaltung und Planung: Büro

Letter map: hits vs office

Shared letters muted; letters that set hits and office apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. hits runs 4 letters (CVCC) against office's 6 (VCCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
hits
6 ch
office

Grammar separator: hits vs office

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hits is averb and officeanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12542, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hits is recorded at frequency rank #7,337, classified as averb, pronounced […]. office is at rank #5,205, tagged as anoun, 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 12542, this pair ranks #1,963,564 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of hits vs office

Shared letters: i. Private to "hits": hst. Private to "office": cefo.

"hits" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "office" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hits ← hhits · hist · hitss · hitts · ihts
  • office ← fofice · offcie · officce · offiec · ofice · ofifce

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "hits" for "office" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hits" is a verb and "office" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "hits" or "office"?
"office" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,205 in our German list, against #7,337 for "hits". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "hits" and "office".

  • Full dictionary entry for "hits" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "office" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,963,564 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hits" and "office" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hits 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 #1,963,564 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