lung vs Nahmen, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“lung” is a noun and “Nahmen” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#36,488
“lung” frequency rank: #2,510
“Nahmen” frequency rank: 38998
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	lung	Nahmen
Definition	die Lunge	männlicher Vorname

Letter map: lung vs Nahmen

Shared letters muted; letters that set lung and Nahmen apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

4 ch

lung

6 ch

Nahmen

Part-of-speech tell for lung / Nahmen

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: lung is anoun and Nahmenaname. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38998, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

lung is recorded at frequency rank #36,488, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. Nahmen is at rank #2,510, tagged as aname, 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 38998, this pair ranks #1,548,959 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of lung vs Nahmen

Shared letters: n. Private to "lung": glu. Private to "Nahmen": aehm.

"lung" · 4 letters · shape CVCC · "Nahmen" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

lung ← llung · lnug · lugn · lungg · lunng · ulng
Nahmen ← anhmen · nahemn · nahhmen · nahmenn · nahmmen · nahmne · namhen · nhamen

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "lung" and "Nahmen" mean the same thing in a sentence?

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

In ordinary German text, does "lung" or "Nahmen" show up more?

"Nahmen" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,510 in our German list, against #36,488 for "lung". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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Full dictionary entry for "lung" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "Nahmen" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,548,959 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"lung" and "Nahmen" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "lung 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 #1,548,959 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.