plants vs taking, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#49,962
“plants” frequency rank: #47,767
“taking” frequency rank: 97729
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	plants	taking
Definition	Plural des Substantivs plant	Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs take

Where the spellings diverge

Shared letters are muted; the letters that actually set plants and taking apart are highlighted. They share 2 letters in sequence, which is exactly why the eye skips the difference.

6 ch

plants

6 ch

taking

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: plants is anoun and takingaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 6 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 97729, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

plants is recorded at frequency rank #49,962, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. taking is at rank #47,767, 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 97729, this pair ranks #2,973 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of plants vs taking

Shared letters: ant. Private to "plants": lps. Private to "taking": gik.

"plants" · 6 letters · shape CCVCCC · "taking" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

plants ← lpants · palnts · plannts · plantss · plantts · platns · pllants · plnats
taking ← atking · taikng · takign · takingg · takinng · takking · taknig · tkaing

Frequency comparison

plants#49,962

taking#47,767

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "plants" and "taking" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "plants" is a noun and "taking" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "plants" or "taking"?

"taking" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #47,767 in our German list, against #49,962 for "plants". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Remembering plants vs taking

The fastest way to pick the right one every time.

Check the role first: if you need a noun, it's “plants”; for a verb, it's “taking”.
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