RefugeevssinglesWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#45,541
“Refugee” frequency rank
#3,773
“singles” frequency rank
49314
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Refugee singles
Definition Person, die aufgrund drohender Gefahr durch Krieg oder Verfolgung aus dem Staat, dessen Staatsangehörigkeit sie besitzt, fliehen musste 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs single

Letter map: Refugee vs singles

Shared letters muted; letters that set Refugee and singles apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

7 ch
Refugee
7 ch
singles

Part-of-speech tell for Refugee / singles

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Refugee is anoun and singlesaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 6 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49314, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Refugee is recorded at frequency rank #45,541, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. singles is at rank #3,773, 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 49314, this pair ranks #1,216,132 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Refugee vs singles

Shared letters: eg. Private to "Refugee": fru. Private to "singles": ilns.

"Refugee" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV  ·  "singles" · 7 letters · shape CVCCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Refugeeerfugee · reffugee · refguee · refuege · refuge · refuggee · reufgee · rfeugee
  • singlesisngles · signles · singels · singgles · singless · singlles · singlse · sinlges

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "Refugee" and "singles" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Refugee" is a noun and "singles" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Refugee" or "singles" show up more?
"singles" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,773 in our German list, against #45,541 for "Refugee". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "Refugee" and "singles". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Refugee" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "singles" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,216,132 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Refugee" and "singles" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs Refugee". 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 #1,216,132 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