mariovssavasTell them apart

Quick tell: mario is a noun, savas is an unknown, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“mario” is a noun and “savas” is an unknown - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#2,911
“mario” frequency rank
#43,459
“savas” frequency rank
46370
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mario savas
Definition der Ehemann Genitiv Singular des Pronomens sava „eigene“

Letter map: mario vs savas

Shared letters muted; letters that set mario and savas apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. mario (CVCVV) and savas (CVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch
mario
5 ch
savas

Part-of-speech tell for mario / savas

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mario is anoun and savasanunknown. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46370, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mario is recorded at frequency rank #2,911, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. savas is at rank #43,459, tagged as anunknown, 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 46370, this pair ranks #1,321,385 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mario vs savas

Shared letters: a. Private to "mario": imor. Private to "savas": sv.

"mario" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV  ·  "savas" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • marioamrio · mairo · maroi · marrio · mmario · mraio
  • savasasvas · saavs · savass · savsa · savvas · ssavas · svaas

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mario" for "savas" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mario" is a noun and "savas" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "mario" vs "savas" - which ranks higher?
"mario" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,911 in our German list, against #43,459 for "savas". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pair "mario" vs "savas" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mario" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "savas" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,321,385 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mario" and "savas" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs savas". 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 #1,321,385 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