miningvsreportsWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#22,436
“mining” frequency rank
#21,038
“reports” frequency rank
43474
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mining reports
Definition Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs mine Plural des Substantivs report

Letter map: mining vs reports

Shared letters muted; letters that set mining and reports apart highlighted. No shared letter run. mining runs 6 letters (CVCVCC) against reports's 7 (CVCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
mining
7 ch
reports

Part-of-speech tell for mining / reports

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mining is averb and reportsanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43474, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mining is recorded at frequency rank #22,436, classified as averb, pronounced […]. reports is at rank #21,038, 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 43474, this pair ranks #1,416,918 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mining vs reports

Shared letters: none. Private to "mining": gimn. Private to "reports": eoprst.

"mining" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC  ·  "reports" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • miningimning · miinng · minign · miningg · mininng · minnig · minning · mmining
  • reportserports · reoprts · reporrts · reporst · reportss · reportts · repotrs · repports

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "mining" and "reports" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mining" is a verb and "reports" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "mining" vs "reports" - which ranks higher?
"reports" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,038 in our German list, against #22,436 for "mining". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "mining" and "reports". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mining" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "reports" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,416,918 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mining" and "reports" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mining 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 #1,416,918 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