JudenvsjuveWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Juden is a noun, juve is an unknown, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#1,667
“Juden” frequency rank
#42,608
“juve” frequency rank
44275
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Juden juve
Definition Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Jude [1] Dativ Plural des Personalpronomens ju „ihr“

Letter map: Juden vs juve

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

5 ch
Juden
4 ch
juve

Part-of-speech tell for Juden / juve

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Juden is anoun and juveanunknown. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44275, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Juden is recorded at frequency rank #1,667, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈjuːdn̩]. juve is at rank #42,608, tagged as anunknown, 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 44275, this pair ranks #1,391,450 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Juden vs juve

Shared letters: eju. Private to "Juden": dn. Private to "juve": v.

"Juden" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "juve" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Juden ← jduen · jjuden · judden · judenn · judne · juedn · ujden
  • juve ← jjuve · juev · juvve · jvue · ujve

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Juden" for "juve" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Juden" is a noun and "juve" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Juden" vs "juve" - which ranks higher?
"Juden" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,667 in our German list, against #42,608 for "juve". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "Juden" and "juve". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Juden" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "juve" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,391,450 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Juden" and "juve" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "juve 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 #1,391,450 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