lets vs lips, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#18,317
“lets” frequency rank: #38,262
“lips” frequency rank: 56579
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	lets	lips
Definition	3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs let	Plural des Substantivs lip

Letter map: lets vs lips

Shared letters muted; letters that set lets and lips apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch

lets

4 ch

lips

Part-of-speech tell for lets / lips

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: lets is averb and lipsanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56579, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

lets is recorded at frequency rank #18,317, classified as averb, pronounced […]. lips is at rank #38,262, tagged as anoun, 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 56579, this pair ranks #934,826 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of lets vs lips

Shared letters: ls. Private to "lets": et. Private to "lips": ip.

"lets" · 4 letters · shape CVCC · "lips" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

lets ← elts · letss · letts · llets · ltes
lips ← ilps · lipps · lipss · lisp · llips · lpis

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "lets" and "lips" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "lets" is a verb and "lips" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "lets" or "lips"?

"lets" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #18,317 in our German list, against #38,262 for "lips". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "lets" and "lips". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "lets" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "lips" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #934,826 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"lets" and "lips" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "lips 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 #934,826 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.