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.
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
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "hotels" and "updates" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary German text, does "hotels" or "updates" show up more?
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.