monumentsvssinglesTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#46,156
“monuments” frequency rank
#3,773
“singles” frequency rank
49929
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature monuments singles
Definition Plural des Substantivs monument 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs single

Letter map: monuments vs singles

Shared letters muted; letters that set monuments and singles apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

9 ch
monuments
7 ch
singles

Part-of-speech tell for monuments / singles

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: monuments is anoun and singlesaverb. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49929, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

monuments is recorded at frequency rank #46,156, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. singles is at rank #3,773, 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 49929, this pair ranks #1,193,042 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of monuments vs singles

Shared letters: ens. Private to "monuments": motu. Private to "singles": gil.

"monuments" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCCC  ·  "singles" · 7 letters · shape CVCCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • monumentsmmonuments · mnouments · monmuents · monnuments · monuemnts · monumennts · monumenst · monumentss
  • singlesisngles · signles · singels · singgles · singless · singlles · singlse · sinlges

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "monuments" and "singles" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "monuments" is a noun and "singles" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "monuments" or "singles" show up more?
"singles" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,773 in our German list, against #46,156 for "monuments". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "monuments" and "singles". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "monuments" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "singles" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,193,042 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "monuments" and "singles" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "monuments 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 #1,193,042 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