museumsvsroutingConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#7,506
“museums” frequency rank
#44,880
“routing” frequency rank
52386
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature museums routing
Definition Plural des Substantivs museum Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs rout

Letter map: museums vs routing

Shared letters muted; letters that set museums and routing apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. museums (CVCVVCC) and routing (CVVCVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
museums
7 ch
routing

Grammar separator: museums vs routing

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: museums is anoun and routingaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 7 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 52386, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

museums is recorded at frequency rank #7,506, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. routing is at rank #44,880, 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 52386, this pair ranks #1,098,948 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of museums vs routing

Shared letters: u. Private to "museums": ems. Private to "routing": ginort.

"museums" · 7 letters · shape CVCVVCC  ·  "routing" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • museumsmmuseums · msueums · muesums · musemus · museumms · museumss · museusm · musseums
  • routingoruting · rotuing · rouitng · routign · routingg · routinng · routnig · routting

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "museums" and "routing" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "museums" is a noun and "routing" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "museums" or "routing" show up more?
"museums" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,506 in our German list, against #44,880 for "routing". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "museums" and "routing". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "museums" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "routing" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,098,948 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "museums" and "routing" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs routing". 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 #1,098,948 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