hotelsvsIndiaWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: hotels is a noun, India is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“hotels” is a noun and “India” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#3,592
“hotels” frequency rank
#18,935
“India” frequency rank
22527
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hotels India
Definition Plural des Substantivs hotel Staat in Südasien; Indien

Where the spellings diverge

Shared letters are muted; the letters that actually set hotels and India apart are highlighted. They share no common letter run, the confusion here is by sound, not by sight.

6 ch
hotels
5 ch
India

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hotels is anoun and Indiaaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22527, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hotels is recorded at frequency rank #3,592, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. India is at rank #18,935, tagged as aname, 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 22527, this pair ranks #1,873,103 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of hotels vs India

Shared letters: none. Private to "hotels": ehlost. Private to "India": adin.

"hotels" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC  ·  "India" · 5 letters · shape VCCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hotelshhotels · hoetls · hotells · hotelss · hotesl · hotles · hottels · htoels
  • Indiaidnia · indai · inddia · inida · inndia · nidia

Frequency comparison

hotels#3,592
India#18,935

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "hotels" and "India" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hotels" is a noun and "India" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "hotels" or "India"?
"hotels" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,592 in our German list, against #18,935 for "India". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Remembering hotels vs India

The fastest way to pick the right one every time.

  • Check the role first: if you need a noun, it's “hotels”; for a name, it's “India”.
  • See each word in full, definition, IPA, etymology and its other confusables. Full “hotels” entry
  • Browse more pairs most likely to be confused. Most confusable

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list