mirrorvsvoicesWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#20,999
“mirror” frequency rank
#37,294
“voices” frequency rank
58293
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mirror voices
Definition Spiegel 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs voice

Letter map: mirror vs voices

Shared letters muted; letters that set mirror and voices apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. mirror (CVCCVC) and voices (CVVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

6 ch
mirror
6 ch
voices

Role in the sentence - mirror and voices

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mirror is anoun and voicesaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 6 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58293, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mirror is recorded at frequency rank #20,999, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. voices is at rank #37,294, 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 58293, this pair ranks #868,406 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mirror vs voices

Shared letters: io. Private to "mirror": mr. Private to "voices": cesv.

"mirror" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC  ·  "voices" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mirror ← imrror · miror · mirorr · mirrorr · mirrro · mmirror · mriror
  • voices ← ovices · vioces · vocies · voicces · voicess · voicse · voiecs · vvoices

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mirror" for "voices" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mirror" is a noun and "voices" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "mirror" vs "voices" - which ranks higher?
"mirror" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #20,999 in our German list, against #37,294 for "voices". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "mirror" and "voices". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mirror" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "voices" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #868,406 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mirror" and "voices" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs voices". 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 #868,406 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