readyvsrealeTell them apart

Which to use

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

#18,370
“ready” frequency rank
#7,521
“reale” frequency rank
25891
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature ready reale
Definition bereit, fertig Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs real

Letter map: ready vs reale

Shared letters muted; letters that set ready and reale apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
ready
5 ch
reale

Corpus notes: ready and reale

ready and reale 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25891, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ready is recorded at frequency rank #18,370, classified as anadj, pronounced […]. reale is at rank #7,521, tagged as anadj, pronounced [ʁeˈaːlə].

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 25891, this pair ranks #1,826,426 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of ready vs reale

Shared letters: aer. Private to "ready": dy. Private to "reale": l.

"ready" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV  ·  "reale" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • readyerady · raedy · readdy · readyy · reayd · reday · rready
  • realeerale · raele · reael · realle · relae · rreale

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "ready" and "reale" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
In ordinary German text, does "ready" or "reale" show up more?
"reale" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,521 in our German list, against #18,370 for "ready". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "ready" and "reale".

  • Full dictionary entry for "ready" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "reale" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,826,426 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "ready" and "reale" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs ready". 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 #1,826,426 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