PartievspartiesWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#4,064
“Partie” frequency rank
#24,064
“parties” frequency rank
28128
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Partie parties
Definition Durchlauf eines Spiels oder Sportwettkampfes 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs party

Letter map: Partie vs parties

Shared letters muted; letters that set Partie and parties apart highlighted. Shared run: 6. Partie runs 6 letters (CVCCVV) against parties's 7 (CVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
Partie
7 ch
parties

Part-of-speech tell for Partie / parties

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Partie is anoun and partiesaverb. On the page they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “Partie” sits inside “parties”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28128, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Partie is recorded at frequency rank #4,064, classified as anoun, pronounced [paʁˈtiː]. parties is at rank #24,064, 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 28128, this pair ranks #1,790,075 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Partie vs parties

Shared letters: aeiprt. Private to "Partie": -. Private to "parties": s.

"Partie" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV  ·  "parties" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Partie ← aprtie · parite · parrtie · parttie · patrie · ppartie · pratie
  • parties ← aprties · parites · parrties · parteis · partiess · partise · partties · patries

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Partie" and "parties" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Partie" is a noun and "parties" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Partie" or "parties" show up more?
"Partie" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,064 in our German list, against #24,064 for "parties". 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 "Partie" and "parties".

  • Full dictionary entry for "Partie" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "parties" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,790,075 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Partie" and "parties" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "parties 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 #1,790,075 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