posted vs Posten, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#44,144
“posted” frequency rank: #2,173
“Posten” frequency rank: 46317
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	posted	Posten
Definition	Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs post	Teil einer Gesamtmenge

Letter map: posted vs Posten

Shared letters muted; letters that set posted and Posten apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.

6 ch

posted

6 ch

Posten

Grammar separator: posted vs Posten

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: posted is averb and Postenanoun. On the page they differ by a single letter - d in “posted” becomes n in “Posten”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46317, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

posted is recorded at frequency rank #44,144, classified as averb, pronounced […]. Posten is at rank #2,173, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈpɔstn̩].

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 46317, this pair ranks #1,323,293 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of posted vs Posten

Shared letters: eopst. Private to "posted": d. Private to "Posten": n.

"posted" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC · "Posten" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

posted ← opsted · posetd · possted · postde · postedd · postted · potsed · pposted
Posten ← opsten · posetn · possten · postenn · postne · postten · potsen · pposten

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "posted" for "Posten" ever safe?

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

In ordinary German text, does "posted" or "Posten" show up more?

"Posten" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,173 in our German list, against #44,144 for "posted". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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Full dictionary entry for "posted" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "Posten" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,323,293 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"posted" and "Posten" 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 #1,323,293 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.