parksvspuresWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: parks is a noun, pures is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#9,248
“parks” frequency rank
#30,727
“pures” frequency rank
39975
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature parks pures
Definition Plural des Substantivs park Nominativ Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs pur

Letter map: parks vs pures

Shared letters muted; letters that set parks and pures apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
parks
5 ch
pures

Part-of-speech tell for parks / pures

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: parks is anoun and puresanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39975, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

parks is recorded at frequency rank #9,248, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. pures is at rank #30,727, tagged as anadj, pronounced [puːʁəs].

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 39975, this pair ranks #1,521,587 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of parks vs pures

Shared letters: prs. Private to "parks": ak. Private to "pures": eu.

"parks" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC  ·  "pures" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • parksaprks · pakrs · parkks · parkss · parrks · parsk · pparks · praks
  • puresppures · prues · puers · puress · purres · purse · upres

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "parks" and "pures" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "parks" is a noun and "pures" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "parks" vs "pures" - which ranks higher?
"parks" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #9,248 in our German list, against #30,727 for "pures". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "parks" and "pures".

  • Full dictionary entry for "parks" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "pures" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,521,587 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "parks" and "pures" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "purem vs pures". 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 #1,521,587 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