museumsvsyorksWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#7,506
“museums” frequency rank
#37,319
“yorks” frequency rank
44825
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature museums yorks
Definition Plural des Substantivs museum 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs york

Letter map: museums vs yorks

Shared letters muted; letters that set museums and yorks apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. museums runs 7 letters (CVCVVCC) against yorks's 5 (VVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
museums
5 ch
yorks

Role in the sentence - museums and yorks

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: museums is anoun and yorksaverb. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44825, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

museums is recorded at frequency rank #7,506, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. yorks is at rank #37,319, 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 44825, this pair ranks #1,373,518 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of museums vs yorks

Shared letters: s. Private to "museums": emu. Private to "yorks": kory.

"museums" · 7 letters · shape CVCVVCC  ·  "yorks" · 5 letters · shape VVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • museumsmmuseums · msueums · muesums · musemus · museumms · museumss · museusm · musseums
  • yorksoyrks · yokrs · yorkks · yorkss · yorrks · yorsk · yroks · yyorks

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "museums" and "yorks" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "museums" is a noun and "yorks" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "museums" vs "yorks" - which ranks higher?
"museums" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,506 in our German list, against #37,319 for "yorks". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "museums" vs "yorks" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "museums" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "yorks" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,373,518 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "museums" and "yorks" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs yorks". 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 #1,373,518 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