marketsvspostingWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: markets is a noun, posting is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#26,516
“markets” frequency rank
#27,004
“posting” frequency rank
53520
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature markets posting
Definition Plural des Substantivs market Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs post

Letter map: markets vs posting

Shared letters muted; letters that set markets and posting apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. markets and posting follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
markets
7 ch
posting

Grammar separator: markets vs posting

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: markets is anoun and postingaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 7 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53520, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

markets is recorded at frequency rank #26,516, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. posting is at rank #27,004, tagged as averb, 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 53520, this pair ranks #1,054,787 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of markets vs posting

Shared letters: st. Private to "markets": aekmr. Private to "posting": ginop.

"markets" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC  ·  "posting" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • marketsamrkets · makrets · marekts · markest · marketss · marketts · markkets · marrkets
  • postingopsting · positng · possting · postign · postingg · postinng · postnig · postting

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "markets" for "posting" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "markets" is a noun and "posting" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "markets" or "posting" show up more?
"markets" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #26,516 in our German list, against #27,004 for "posting". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "markets" and "posting".

  • Full dictionary entry for "markets" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "posting" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,054,787 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "markets" and "posting" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "posting 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 #1,054,787 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