Which to use
“mountains” is a noun and “official” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #30,691
- “mountains” frequency rank
- #20,689
- “official” frequency rank
- 51380
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | mountains | official |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Plural des Substantivs mountain | offiziell |
Letter map: mountains vs official
Shared letters muted; letters that set mountains and official apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. mountains runs 9 letters (CVVCCVVCC) against official's 8 (VCCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Role in the sentence - mountains and official
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mountains is anoun and officialanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51380, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
mountains is recorded at frequency rank #30,691, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. official is at rank #20,689, tagged as anadj, 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 51380, this pair ranks #1,137,722 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of mountains vs official
Shared letters: aio. Private to "mountains": mnstu. Private to "official": cfl.
"mountains" · 9 letters · shape CVVCCVVCC · "official" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "mountains" and "official" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary German text, does "mountains" or "official" show up more?
What to do next
You've compared "mountains" and "official". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "mountains" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "official" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #1,137,722 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "mountains" and "official" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mountains 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 #1,137,722 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.