Which to use
“hotels” and “office” are a confusable German pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,592
- “hotels” frequency rank
- #5,205
- “office” frequency rank
- 8797
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | hotels | office |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Plural des Substantivs hotel | Arbeitsraum für Verwaltung und Planung: Büro |
Letter map: hotels vs office
Shared letters muted; letters that set hotels and office apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. hotels (CVCVCC) and office (VCCVCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Corpus notes: hotels and office
hotels and office are indexed as a confusable German pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they share most of their letters but differ in 6 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 8797, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
hotels is recorded at frequency rank #3,592, classified as anoun, 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 8797, this pair ranks #1,982,786 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of hotels vs office
Shared letters: eo. Private to "hotels": hlst. Private to "office": cfi.
"hotels" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC · "office" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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Frequency check: "hotels" vs "office" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've compared "hotels" and "office". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "hotels" 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 #1,982,786 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "hotels" and "office" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "office 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 #1,982,786 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.