PlanungvsplayingTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#2,609
“Planung” frequency rank
#34,851
“playing” frequency rank
37460
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Planung playing
Definition durchdachter Vorgang, der zu einer Zeichnung oder Beschreibung eines Vorhaben, im Ergebnis (dem Plan), führt Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs play

Letter map: Planung vs playing

Shared letters muted; letters that set Planung and playing apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.

7 ch
Planung
7 ch
playing

Role in the sentence - Planung and playing

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Planung is anoun and playingaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37460, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Planung is recorded at frequency rank #2,609, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈplaːnʊŋ]. playing is at rank #34,851, 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 37460, this pair ranks #1,589,661 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Planung vs playing

Shared letters: aglnp. Private to "Planung": u. Private to "playing": iy.

"Planung" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVCC  ·  "playing" · 7 letters · shape CCVVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Planunglpanung · palnung · plannug · plannung · planugn · planungg · planunng · plaunng
  • playinglpaying · palying · plaiyng · playign · playingg · playinng · playnig · playying

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Planung" for "playing" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Planung" is a noun and "playing" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "Planung" or "playing"?
"Planung" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,609 in our German list, against #34,851 for "playing". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "Planung" and "playing". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Planung" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "playing" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,589,661 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Planung" and "playing" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "playing 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 #1,589,661 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