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Which to use

“posts” and “wars” are a confusable German pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#14,390
“posts” frequency rank
#3,861
“wars” frequency rank
18251
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature posts wars
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs post 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs war

Letter map: posts vs wars

Shared letters muted; letters that set posts and wars apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

5 ch
posts
4 ch
wars

Spelling & dictionary notes on posts vs wars

posts and wars are indexed as a confusable German pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18251, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

posts is recorded at frequency rank #14,390, classified as averb, pronounced […]. wars is at rank #3,861, 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 18251, this pair ranks #1,920,013 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of posts vs wars

Shared letters: s. Private to "posts": opt. Private to "wars": arw.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • postsopsts · possts · postss · postts · potss · pposts · psots
  • warsawrs · warrs · warss · wasr · wras · wwars

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "posts" for "wars" ever safe?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "posts" vs "wars" - which ranks higher?
"wars" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,861 in our German list, against #14,390 for "posts". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "posts" and "wars". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "posts" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "wars" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,920,013 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "posts" and "wars" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "posts 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 #1,920,013 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