Which to use
“puzzles” is a verb and “shops” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #49,986
- “puzzles” frequency rank
- #11,970
- “shops” frequency rank
- 61956
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | puzzles | shops |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs puzzle | Plural des Substantivs shop |
Letter map: puzzles vs shops
Shared letters muted; letters that set puzzles and shops apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. puzzles runs 7 letters (CVCCCVC) against shops's 5 (CCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Part-of-speech tell for puzzles / shops
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: puzzles is averb and shopsanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 61956, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
puzzles is recorded at frequency rank #49,986, classified as averb, pronounced […]. shops is at rank #11,970, tagged as anoun, 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 61956, this pair ranks #730,562 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of puzzles vs shops
Shared letters: ps. Private to "puzzles": eluz. Private to "shops": ho.
"puzzles" · 7 letters · shape CVCCCVC · "shops" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
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- Full dictionary entry for "puzzles" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "shops" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #730,562 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "puzzles" and "shops" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "purpose 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 #730,562 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.