Which to use
“office” is a noun and “shows” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #5,205
- “office” frequency rank
- #8,130
- “shows” frequency rank
- 13335
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | office | shows |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Arbeitsraum für Verwaltung und Planung: Büro | 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs show |
Letter map: office vs shows
Shared letters muted; letters that set office and shows apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. office runs 6 letters (VCCVCV) against shows's 5 (CCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Part-of-speech tell for office / shows
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: office is anoun and showsaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13335, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
office is recorded at frequency rank #5,205, 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 13335, this pair ranks #1,958,647 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of office vs shows
Shared letters: o. Private to "office": cefi. Private to "shows": hsw.
"office" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV · "shows" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "office" and "shows" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "office" vs "shows" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
You've compared "office" and "shows". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "office" 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 #1,958,647 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "office" and "shows" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs shows". 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 #1,958,647 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.