karavsKasanWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: kara is a adjective, Kasan is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“kara” is an adjective and “Kasan” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#21,657
“kara” frequency rank
#46,770
“Kasan” frequency rank
68427
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature kara Kasan
Definition lieb, wert, teuer, wertvoll, hold, herzig Stadt an der Wolga, Hauptstadt der Republik Tatarstan, Russland

Letter map: kara vs Kasan

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

4 ch
kara
5 ch
Kasan

Role in the sentence - kara and Kasan

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: kara is anadjective and Kasananame. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 68427, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

kara is recorded at frequency rank #21,657, classified as anadj. Kasan is at rank #46,770, tagged as aname, pronounced [kaˈzaːn].

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 68427, this pair ranks #508,125 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of kara vs Kasan

Shared letters: ak. Private to "kara": r. Private to "Kasan": ns.

"kara" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "Kasan" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • kara ← akra · kaar · karra · kkara · kraa
  • Kasan ← aksan · kaasn · kasann · kasna · kassan · kkasan · ksaan

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "kara" and "Kasan" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "kara" is an adjective and "Kasan" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "kara" or "Kasan"?
"kara" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,657 in our German list, against #46,770 for "Kasan". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "kara" and "Kasan". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "kara" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Kasan" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #508,125 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "kara" and "Kasan" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Kasan vs Kaste". 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 #508,125 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