palacevsRegETell them apart

Quick tell: palace is a noun, RegE is an abbrev, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“palace” is a noun and “RegE” is an abbrev - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#14,886
“palace” frequency rank
#11,736
“RegE” frequency rank
26622
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature palace RegE
Definition ein besonders aufwendig ausgestattetes Gebäude; Palast Abkürzung für Regierungsentwurf

Letter map: palace vs RegE

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

6 ch
palace
4 ch
RegE

Role in the sentence - palace and RegE

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: palace is anoun and RegEanabbrev. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26622, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

palace is recorded at frequency rank #14,886, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. RegE is at rank #11,736, tagged as anabbrev, 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 26622, this pair ranks #1,815,155 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of palace vs RegE

Shared letters: e. Private to "palace": aclp. Private to "RegE": gr.

"palace" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "RegE" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • palaceaplace · paalce · palacce · palaec · palcae · pallace · plaace · ppalace
  • RegEerge · reeg · regge · rgee · rrege

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "palace" for "RegE" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "palace" is a noun and "RegE" an abbrev, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "palace" or "RegE"?
"RegE" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,736 in our German list, against #14,886 for "palace". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "palace" and "RegE".

  • Full dictionary entry for "palace" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "RegE" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,815,155 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "palace" and "RegE" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "palace 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 #1,815,155 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