RealesvswantedWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#29,746
“Reales” frequency rank
#27,131
“wanted” frequency rank
56877
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Reales wanted
Definition Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Real Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs want

Letter map: Reales vs wanted

Shared letters muted; letters that set Reales and wanted apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. Reales (CVVCVC) and wanted (CVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

6 ch
Reales
6 ch
wanted

Grammar separator: Reales vs wanted

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Reales is anoun and wantedaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 5 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56877, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Reales is recorded at frequency rank #29,746, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. wanted is at rank #27,131, 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 56877, this pair ranks #923,243 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Reales vs wanted

Shared letters: ae. Private to "Reales": lrs. Private to "wanted": dntw.

"Reales" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC  ·  "wanted" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Realeserales · raeles · reaels · realess · realles · realse · relaes · rreales
  • wantedawnted · wanetd · wannted · wantedd · wantted · watned · wnated · wwanted

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Reales" for "wanted" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Reales" is a noun and "wanted" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Reales" or "wanted" show up more?
"wanted" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #27,131 in our German list, against #29,746 for "Reales". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "Reales" vs "wanted" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Reales" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "wanted" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #923,243 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Reales" and "wanted" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs Reales". 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 #923,243 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