jurorvsmarksTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#49,812
“juror” frequency rank
#25,230
“marks” frequency rank
75042
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature juror marks
Definition Geschworener, Geschworene 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs mark

Letter map: juror vs marks

Shared letters muted; letters that set juror and marks apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. juror (CVCVC) and marks (CVCCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch
juror
5 ch
marks

Part-of-speech tell for juror / marks

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: juror is anoun and marksaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 75042, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

juror is recorded at frequency rank #49,812, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. marks is at rank #25,230, 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 75042, this pair ranks #317,917 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of juror vs marks

Shared letters: r. Private to "juror": jou. Private to "marks": akms.

"juror" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "marks" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • juror ← jjuror · jruor · juorr · jurorr · jurro · jurror · ujror
  • marks ← amrks · makrs · markks · markss · marrks · marsk · mmarks · mraks

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "juror" for "marks" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "juror" is a noun and "marks" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "juror" or "marks" show up more?
"marks" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,230 in our German list, against #49,812 for "juror". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "juror" and "marks". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "juror" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "marks" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #317,917 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "juror" and "marks" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "juror 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 #317,917 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