Which to use
“place” and “plays” are a confusable German pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #11,501
- “place” frequency rank
- #18,658
- “plays” frequency rank
- 30159
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | place | plays |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Platz, Ort, Stelle | Plural des Substantivs play |
Same sound, different letters: place vs plays
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 3 letters.
Homophone desk: place vs plays
This is the hard kind. place and plays are pronounced identically ([pleɪs]) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30159, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
place is recorded at frequency rank #11,501, classified as anoun, pronounced [pleɪs]. plays is at rank #18,658, tagged as anoun, pronounced [pleɪs].
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 30159, this pair ranks #1,753,275 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of place vs plays
Shared letters: alp. Private to "place": ce. Private to "plays": sy.
"place" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV · "plays" · 5 letters · shape CCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "place" and "plays" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "place" vs "plays" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
"place" and "plays" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "place" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "plays" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #1,753,275 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "place" and "plays" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "plants vs plays". 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 #1,753,275 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.