postsvsPottTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#14,390
“posts” frequency rank
#19,676
“Pott” frequency rank
34066
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature posts Pott
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs post Trinkgefäß

Letter map: posts vs Pott

Shared letters muted; letters that set posts and Pott apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
posts
4 ch
Pott

Role in the sentence - posts and Pott

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: posts is averb and Pottanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34066, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

posts is recorded at frequency rank #14,390, classified as averb, pronounced […]. Pott is at rank #19,676, tagged as anoun, pronounced [pɔt].

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 34066, this pair ranks #1,671,788 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of posts vs Pott

Shared letters: opt. Private to "posts": s. Private to "Pott": -.

"posts" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC  ·  "Pott" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • postsopsts · possts · postss · postts · potss · pposts · psots
  • Pottoptt · ppott · ptot

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "posts" and "Pott" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "posts" is a verb and "Pott" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "posts" or "Pott" show up more?
"posts" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,390 in our German list, against #19,676 for "Pott". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "posts" and "Pott".

  • Full dictionary entry for "posts" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Pott" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,671,788 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "posts" and "Pott" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "PoC vs Pott". 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 #1,671,788 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