kungvstipsTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#22,408
“kung” frequency rank
#21,448
“tips” frequency rank
43856
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature kung tips
Definition monarchisches Oberhaupt eines Königreichs; König 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs tip

Letter map: kung vs tips

Shared letters muted; letters that set kung and tips apart highlighted. No shared letter run. kung and tips follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
kung
4 ch
tips

Part-of-speech tell for kung / tips

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: kung is anoun and tipsaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43856, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

kung is recorded at frequency rank #22,408, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. tips is at rank #21,448, 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 43856, this pair ranks #1,404,742 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of kung vs tips

Shared letters: none. Private to "kung": gknu. Private to "tips": ipst.

"kung" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "tips" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • kungkkung · knug · kugn · kungg · kunng · ukng
  • tipsitps · tipss · tisp · tpis · ttips

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "kung" for "tips" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "kung" is a noun and "tips" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "kung" or "tips"?
"tips" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,448 in our German list, against #22,408 for "kung". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "kung" and "tips". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "kung" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "tips" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,404,742 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "kung" and "tips" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "kung 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 #1,404,742 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