pistevspostsConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#17,679
“piste” frequency rank
#14,390
“posts” frequency rank
32069
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature piste posts
Definition Punkt 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs post

Letter map: piste vs posts

Shared letters muted; letters that set piste and posts apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
piste
5 ch
posts

Role in the sentence - piste and posts

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: piste is anoun and postsaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32069, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

piste is recorded at frequency rank #17,679, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈpiste]. posts is at rank #14,390, 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 32069, this pair ranks #1,715,321 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of piste vs posts

Shared letters: pst. Private to "piste": ei. Private to "posts": o.

"piste" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "posts" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • pisteipste · piset · pisste · pistte · pitse · ppiste · psite
  • postsopsts · possts · postss · postts · potss · pposts · psots

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "piste" for "posts" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "piste" is a noun and "posts" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "piste" or "posts" show up more?
"posts" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,390 in our German list, against #17,679 for "piste". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "piste" and "posts". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "piste" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "posts" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,715,321 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "piste" and "posts" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "posts 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 #1,715,321 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