jedevsjudgeConfusable pair

Quick tell: jede is a unknown, judge is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“jede” is an unknown and “judge” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#433
“jede” frequency rank
#37,006
“judge” frequency rank
37439
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature jede judge
Definition Nominativ Singular Femininum attributiv des Indefinitpronomens jeder Richter

Letter map: jede vs judge

Shared letters muted; letters that set jede and judge apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. jede runs 4 letters (CVCV) against judge's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
jede
5 ch
judge

Part-of-speech tell for jede / judge

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: jede is anunknown and judgeanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37439, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

jede is recorded at frequency rank #433, classified as anunknown, pronounced [ˈjeːdə]. judge is at rank #37,006, 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 37439, this pair ranks #1,590,212 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of jede vs judge

Shared letters: dej. Private to "jede": -. Private to "judge": gu.

"jede" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "judge" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • jedeejde · jdee · jedde · jeed · jjede
  • judgejduge · jjudge · juddge · judeg · judgge · jugde · ujdge

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "jede" for "judge" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "jede" is an unknown and "judge" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "jede" vs "judge" - which ranks higher?
"jede" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #433 in our German list, against #37,006 for "judge". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "jede" and "judge". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "jede" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "judge" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,590,212 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "jede" and "judge" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "judge 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 #1,590,212 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