packstvsparksWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#26,121
“packst” frequency rank
#9,248
“parks” frequency rank
35369
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature packst parks
Definition 2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs packen Plural des Substantivs park

Letter map: packst vs parks

Shared letters muted; letters that set packst and parks apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

6 ch
packst
5 ch
parks

Part-of-speech tell for packst / parks

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: packst is averb and parksanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35369, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

packst is recorded at frequency rank #26,121, classified as averb, pronounced [pakst]. parks is at rank #9,248, tagged as anoun, 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 35369, this pair ranks #1,641,643 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of packst vs parks

Shared letters: akps. Private to "packst": ct. Private to "parks": r.

"packst" · 6 letters · shape CVCCCC  ·  "parks" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • packstapckst · pacckst · packkst · packsst · packstt · packts · pacskt · pakcst
  • parksaprks · pakrs · parkks · parkss · parrks · parsk · pparks · praks

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "packst" and "parks" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "packst" is a verb and "parks" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "packst" or "parks" show up more?
"parks" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #9,248 in our German list, against #26,121 for "packst". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "packst" and "parks". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "packst" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "parks" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,641,643 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "packst" and "parks" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "packet vs packst". 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 #1,641,643 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