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“Party” and “Partys” are a confusable German pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#1,367
“Party” frequency rank
#9,431
“Partys” frequency rank
10798
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Party Partys
Definition (privates oder öffentliches) geselliges, meist abendliches Treffen, (private oder öffentliche) zwanglose Feier Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Party

Where the eye mixes Party and Partys

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. Party runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against Partys's 6 (CVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
Party
6 ch
Partys

Look-alike desk: Party vs Partys

A purely visual mix-up. Party ([ˈpaːɐ̯ti]) and Partys ([ˈpaːɐ̯tis]) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “Party” sits inside “Partys”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10798, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Party is recorded at frequency rank #1,367, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈpaːɐ̯ti]. Partys is at rank #9,431, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈpaːɐ̯tis].

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 10798, this pair ranks #1,973,259 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Party vs Partys

Shared letters: aprty. Private to "Party": -. Private to "Partys": s.

"Party" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "Partys" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Partyaprty · parrty · partty · partyy · paryt · patry · pparty · praty
  • Partysaprtys · parrtys · partsy · parttys · partyss · partyys · paryts · patrys

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Party" and "Partys" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently ([ˈpaːɐ̯ti] versus [ˈpaːɐ̯tis]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary German text, does "Party" or "Partys" show up more?
"Party" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,367 in our German list, against #9,431 for "Partys". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "Party" and "Partys" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Party" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Partys" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,973,259 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Party" and "Partys" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pars vs Partys". 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 #1,973,259 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