# policy vs shame

> German confusable word pair

## The two words

### policy
*noun · IPA […] · frequency rank #14,150*
Politik auf der inhaltlichen Ebene, in Abgrenzung zu polity und politics

### shame
*verb · IPA […] · frequency rank #43,491*
jemanden beschämen

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/de/vs/policy-vs-shame