Which to use
“passten” is a verb and “paste” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #26,123
- “passten” frequency rank
- #24,065
- “paste” frequency rank
- 50188
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | passten | paste |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | 1. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs passen | Paste |
Letter map: passten vs paste
Shared letters muted; letters that set passten and paste apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.
Part-of-speech tell for passten / paste
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: passten is averb and pasteanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50188, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
passten is recorded at frequency rank #26,123, classified as averb, pronounced [ˈpastn̩]. paste is at rank #24,065, 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 50188, this pair ranks #1,183,254 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of passten vs paste
Shared letters: aepst. Private to "passten": n. Private to "paste": -.
"passten" · 7 letters · shape CVCCCVC · "paste" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
You've compared "passten" and "paste". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "passten" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "paste" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #1,183,254 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "passten" and "paste" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "paste 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 #1,183,254 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.