hotelsvsupdatesConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#3,592
“hotels” frequency rank
#9,475
“updates” frequency rank
13067
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hotels updates
Definition Plural des Substantivs hotel 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs update

Letter map: hotels vs updates

Shared letters muted; letters that set hotels and updates apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. hotels runs 6 letters (CVCVCC) against updates's 7 (VCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
hotels
7 ch
updates

Part-of-speech tell for hotels / updates

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: hotels is anoun and updatesaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13067, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hotels is recorded at frequency rank #3,592, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. updates is at rank #9,475, 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 13067, this pair ranks #1,960,325 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of hotels vs updates

Shared letters: est. Private to "hotels": hlo. Private to "updates": adpu.

"hotels" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC  ·  "updates" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • hotels ← hhotels · hoetls · hotells · hotelss · hotesl · hotles · hottels · htoels
  • updates ← pudates · udpates · upadtes · updaets · updatess · updatse · updattes · upddates

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "hotels" and "updates" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hotels" is a noun and "updates" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "hotels" or "updates" show up more?
"hotels" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,592 in our German list, against #9,475 for "updates". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "hotels" vs "updates" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "hotels" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "updates" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,960,325 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hotels" and "updates" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs updates". 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 #1,960,325 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