PauvsvoicesWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: Pau is a name, voices is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Pau” is a name and “voices” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#49,946
“Pau” frequency rank
#37,294
“voices” frequency rank
87240
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Pau voices
Definition Stadt in Südfrankreich 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs voice

Letter map: Pau vs voices

Shared letters muted; letters that set Pau and voices apart highlighted. No shared letter run. Pau runs 3 letters (CVV) against voices's 6 (CVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

3 ch
Pau
6 ch
voices

Role in the sentence - Pau and voices

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Pau is aname and voicesaverb. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 87240, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Pau is recorded at frequency rank #49,946, classified as aname, pronounced […]. voices is at rank #37,294, 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 87240, this pair ranks #82,970 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Pau vs voices

Shared letters: none. Private to "Pau": apu. Private to "voices": ceiosv.

"Pau" · 3 letters · shape CVV  ·  "voices" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • voices ← ovices · vioces · vocies · voicces · voicess · voicse · voiecs · vvoices

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Pau" and "voices" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Pau" is a name and "voices" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Pau" vs "voices" - which ranks higher?
"voices" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #37,294 in our German list, against #49,946 for "Pau". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "Pau" and "voices". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Pau" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "voices" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #82,970 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Pau" and "voices" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Pau 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 #82,970 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