monkeyvspartsWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#29,246
“monkey” frequency rank
#21,016
“parts” frequency rank
50262
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature monkey parts
Definition der Affe 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs part

Letter map: monkey vs parts

Shared letters muted; letters that set monkey and parts apart highlighted. No shared letter run. monkey runs 6 letters (CVCCVV) against parts's 5 (CVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
monkey
5 ch
parts

Part-of-speech tell for monkey / parts

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: monkey is anoun and partsaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50262, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

monkey is recorded at frequency rank #29,246, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. parts is at rank #21,016, 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 50262, this pair ranks #1,180,380 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of monkey vs parts

Shared letters: none. Private to "monkey": ekmnoy. Private to "parts": aprst.

"monkey" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV  ·  "parts" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • monkeymmonkey · mnokey · mokney · moneky · monkeyy · monkkey · monkye · monnkey
  • partsaprts · parrts · parst · partss · partts · patrs · pparts · prats

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "monkey" for "parts" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "monkey" is a noun and "parts" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "monkey" or "parts"?
"parts" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,016 in our German list, against #29,246 for "monkey". 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 "monkey" and "parts".

  • Full dictionary entry for "monkey" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "parts" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,180,380 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "monkey" and "parts" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "monkey 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 #1,180,380 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