madurovsofficeWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: maduro is a adjective, office is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“maduro” is an adjective and “office” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#38,270
“maduro” frequency rank
#5,205
“office” frequency rank
43475
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature maduro office
Definition ausgewachsen, erwachsen, reif Arbeitsraum für Verwaltung und Planung: Büro

Letter map: maduro vs office

Shared letters muted; letters that set maduro and office apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. maduro (CVCVCV) and office (VCCVCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

6 ch
maduro
6 ch
office

Part-of-speech tell for maduro / office

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: maduro is anadjective and officeanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 6 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43475, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

maduro is recorded at frequency rank #38,270, classified as anadj, pronounced […]. office is at rank #5,205, 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 43475, this pair ranks #1,416,890 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of maduro vs office

Shared letters: o. Private to "maduro": admru. Private to "office": cefi.

"maduro" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "office" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • maduroamduro · madduro · madruo · maduor · madurro · maudro · mdauro · mmaduro
  • officefofice · offcie · officce · offiec · ofice · ofifce

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "maduro" and "office" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "maduro" is an adjective and "office" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "maduro" or "office"?
"office" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,205 in our German list, against #38,270 for "maduro". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "maduro" vs "office" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "maduro" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "office" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,416,890 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "maduro" and "office" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "maduro 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 #1,416,890 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