meetsvsmoveTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#27,844
“meets” frequency rank
#16,226
“move” frequency rank
44070
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature meets move
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs meet Orts- oder Positionsveränderung, Bewegung

Letter map: meets vs move

Shared letters muted; letters that set meets and move apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. meets runs 5 letters (CVVCC) against move's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
meets
4 ch
move

Grammar separator: meets vs move

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: meets is averb and moveanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44070, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

meets is recorded at frequency rank #27,844, classified as averb, pronounced […]. move is at rank #16,226, 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 44070, this pair ranks #1,398,015 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of meets vs move

Shared letters: em. Private to "meets": st. Private to "move": ov.

"meets" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC  ·  "move" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • meetsemets · meest · meetss · meetts · metes · mets · mmeets
  • movemmove · moev · movve · mvoe · omve

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "meets" for "move" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "meets" is a verb and "move" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "meets" or "move" show up more?
"move" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,226 in our German list, against #27,844 for "meets". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "meets" vs "move" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "meets" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "move" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,398,015 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "meets" and "move" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "meets 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 #1,398,015 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