MusavsshowsWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: Musa is a name, shows is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Musa” is a name and “shows” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#44,090
“Musa” frequency rank
#8,130
“shows” frequency rank
52220
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Musa shows
Definition männlicher Vorname 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs show

Letter map: Musa vs shows

Shared letters muted; letters that set Musa and shows apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. Musa runs 4 letters (CVCV) against shows's 5 (CCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
Musa
5 ch
shows

Role in the sentence - Musa and shows

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Musa is aname and showsaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 52220, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Musa is recorded at frequency rank #44,090, classified as aname, pronounced […]. shows is at rank #8,130, 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 52220, this pair ranks #1,105,352 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Musa vs shows

Shared letters: s. Private to "Musa": amu. Private to "shows": how.

"Musa" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "shows" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Musammusa · msua · mussa · umsa
  • showshsows · shhows · shosw · showss · showws · shwos · sohws · sshows

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Musa" for "shows" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Musa" is a name and "shows" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Musa" or "shows" show up more?
"shows" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,130 in our German list, against #44,090 for "Musa". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "Musa" and "shows". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Musa" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "shows" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,105,352 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Musa" and "shows" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Musa 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 #1,105,352 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