kuvsKüheTell them apart

Quick tell: ku is a pronoun, Kühe is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“ku” is a pronoun and “Kühe” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#17,061
“ku” frequency rank
#8,584
“Kühe” frequency rank
25645
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature ku Kühe
Definition wo Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Kuh

Letter map: ku vs Kühe

Shared letters muted; letters that set ku and Kühe apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

2 ch
ku
4 ch
Kühe

Part-of-speech tell for ku / Kühe

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: ku is apronoun and Küheanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25645, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ku is recorded at frequency rank #17,061, classified as apron, pronounced […]. Kühe is at rank #8,584, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈkyːə].

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 25645, this pair ranks #1,830,143 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of ku vs Kühe

Shared letters: k. Private to "ku": u. Private to "Kühe": ehü.

"ku" · 2 letters · shape CV  ·  "Kühe" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "ku" and "Kühe" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "ku" is a pronoun and "Kühe" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "ku" or "Kühe"?
"Kühe" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,584 in our German list, against #17,061 for "ku". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "ku" and "Kühe".

  • Full dictionary entry for "ku" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Kühe" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,830,143 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "ku" and "Kühe" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ku vs puzzles". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #1,830,143 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