PosevspostedWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#24,877
“Pose” frequency rank
#44,144
“posted” frequency rank
69021
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Pose posted
Definition schwimmender Hohlkörper oder Körper aus Holz, Kork oder Kunststoff, der an der Angelschnur befestigt wird, um dem beköderten Haken in einer bestimmten Wassertiefe zu halten Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs post

Letter map: Pose vs posted

Shared letters muted; letters that set Pose and posted apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

4 ch
Pose
6 ch
posted

Role in the sentence - Pose and posted

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Pose is anoun and postedaverb. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 69021, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Pose is recorded at frequency rank #24,877, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈpoːzə]. posted is at rank #44,144, 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 69021, this pair ranks #489,514 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Pose vs posted

Shared letters: eops. Private to "Pose": -. Private to "posted": dt.

"Pose" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "posted" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Poseopse · poes · ppose · psoe
  • postedopsted · posetd · possted · postde · postedd · postted · potsed · pposted

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "Pose" and "posted" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Pose" is a noun and "posted" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "Pose" or "posted"?
"Pose" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #24,877 in our German list, against #44,144 for "posted". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "Pose" and "posted". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Pose" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "posted" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #489,514 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Pose" and "posted" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "posted 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 #489,514 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