maggiorevsprinceWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#44,783
“maggiore” frequency rank
#12,149
“prince” frequency rank
56932
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature maggiore prince
Definition größer Prinz

Letter map: maggiore vs prince

Shared letters muted; letters that set maggiore and prince apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. maggiore runs 8 letters (CVCCVVCV) against prince's 6 (CCVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
maggiore
6 ch
prince

Part-of-speech tell for maggiore / prince

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: maggiore is anadjective and princeanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56932, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

maggiore is recorded at frequency rank #44,783, classified as anadj, pronounced […]. prince is at rank #12,149, 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 56932, this pair ranks #921,113 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of maggiore vs prince

Shared letters: eir. Private to "maggiore": agmo. Private to "prince": cnp.

"maggiore" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVVCV  ·  "prince" · 6 letters · shape CCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • maggiore ← amggiore · maggioer · maggiorre · maggiroe · maggoire · magigore · magiore · mgagiore
  • prince ← pirnce · pprince · pricne · princce · prinec · prinnce · prnice · prrince

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "maggiore" for "prince" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "maggiore" is an adjective and "prince" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "maggiore" or "prince" show up more?
"prince" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,149 in our German list, against #44,783 for "maggiore". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "maggiore" vs "prince" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "maggiore" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "prince" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #921,113 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "maggiore" and "prince" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "maggiore 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 #921,113 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