megavsparksTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#3,982
“mega” frequency rank
#9,248
“parks” frequency rank
13230
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mega parks
Definition die Erlaubnis haben; dürfen Plural des Substantivs park

Letter map: mega vs parks

Shared letters muted; letters that set mega and parks apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. mega runs 4 letters (CVCV) against parks's 5 (CVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
mega
5 ch
parks

Part-of-speech tell for mega / parks

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mega is averb and parksanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13230, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mega is recorded at frequency rank #3,982, classified as averb, pronounced […]. parks is at rank #9,248, 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 13230, this pair ranks #1,959,273 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of mega vs parks

Shared letters: a. Private to "mega": egm. Private to "parks": kprs.

"mega" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "parks" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mega ← emga · meag · megga · mgea · mmega
  • parks ← aprks · pakrs · parkks · parkss · parrks · parsk · pparks · praks

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mega" for "parks" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mega" is a verb and "parks" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "mega" or "parks" show up more?
"mega" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,982 in our German list, against #9,248 for "parks". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "mega" and "parks". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mega" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "parks" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,959,273 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mega" and "parks" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "parks 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 #1,959,273 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