oasisvssetWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: oasis is a noun, set is a num, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“oasis” is a noun and “set” is a num - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#40,733
“oasis” frequency rank
#3,995
“set” frequency rank
44728
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature oasis set
Definition fruchtbarer Ort, der von unfruchtbarem Land umgeben ist Kardinalzahl zwischen sechs und acht

Letter map: oasis vs set

Shared letters muted; letters that set oasis and set apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

5 ch
oasis
3 ch
set

Part-of-speech tell for oasis / set

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: oasis is anoun and setanum. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44728, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

oasis is recorded at frequency rank #40,733, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. set is at rank #3,995, tagged as anum, 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 44728, this pair ranks #1,376,676 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of oasis vs set

Shared letters: s. Private to "oasis": aio. Private to "set": et.

"oasis" · 5 letters · shape VVCVC  ·  "set" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • oasisaosis · oaiss · oasiss · oassi · oassis · osais

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "oasis" for "set" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "oasis" is a noun and "set" a num, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "oasis" or "set" show up more?
"set" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,995 in our German list, against #40,733 for "oasis". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pair "oasis" vs "set" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "oasis" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "set" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,376,676 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "oasis" and "set" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "oasis 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 #1,376,676 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