museovsshowsWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#45,466
“museo” frequency rank
#8,130
“shows” frequency rank
53596
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature museo shows
Definition Museum n 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs show

Letter map: museo vs shows

Shared letters muted; letters that set museo and shows apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. museo (CVCVV) and shows (CCVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch
museo
5 ch
shows

Grammar separator: museo vs shows

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: museo is anoun and showsaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 5 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53596, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

museo is recorded at frequency rank #45,466, classified as anoun, 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 53596, this pair ranks #1,051,784 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of museo vs shows

Shared letters: os. Private to "museo": emu. Private to "shows": hw.

"museo" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV  ·  "shows" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • museommuseo · msueo · mueso · musoe · musseo · umseo
  • showshsows · shhows · shosw · showss · showws · shwos · sohws · sshows

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "museo" and "shows" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "museo" is a noun and "shows" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "museo" 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 #45,466 for "museo". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "museo" 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 #1,051,784 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "museo" and "shows" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "museo 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 #1,051,784 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