pontevsposteTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#44,853
“ponte” frequency rank
#13,669
“poste” frequency rank
58522
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature ponte poste
Definition die Brücke 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs posen

Letter map: ponte vs poste

Shared letters muted; letters that set ponte and poste apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

5 ch
ponte
5 ch
poste

Role in the sentence - ponte and poste

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: ponte is anoun and posteaverb. On the page they differ by a single letter - n in “ponte” becomes s in “poste”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58522, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ponte is recorded at frequency rank #44,853, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. poste is at rank #13,669, tagged as averb, pronounced [ˈpoːstə].

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 58522, this pair ranks #859,523 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of ponte vs poste

Shared letters: eopt. Private to "ponte": n. Private to "poste": s.

"ponte" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "poste" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • ponteopnte · pnote · ponet · ponnte · pontte · potne · pponte
  • posteopste · poset · posste · potse · pposte · psote

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "ponte" and "poste" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "ponte" is a noun and "poste" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "ponte" or "poste"?
"poste" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,669 in our German list, against #44,853 for "ponte". 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 "ponte" and "poste". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "ponte" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "poste" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #859,523 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "ponte" and "poste" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ponte 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 #859,523 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