reloadedvsspiritConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#41,421
“reloaded” frequency rank
#15,483
“spirit” frequency rank
56904
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature reloaded spirit
Definition Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs reload der Geist

Letter map: reloaded vs spirit

Shared letters muted; letters that set reloaded and spirit apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. reloaded runs 8 letters (CVCVVCVC) against spirit's 6 (CCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
reloaded
6 ch
spirit

Part-of-speech tell for reloaded / spirit

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: reloaded is averb and spiritanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56904, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

reloaded is recorded at frequency rank #41,421, classified as averb, pronounced […]. spirit is at rank #15,483, 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 56904, this pair ranks #922,205 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of reloaded vs spirit

Shared letters: r. Private to "reloaded": adelo. Private to "spirit": ipst.

"reloaded" · 8 letters · shape CVCVVCVC  ·  "spirit" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • reloadederloaded · relaoded · relloaded · reloadde · reloadded · reloadedd · reloaedd · relodaed
  • spiritpsirit · siprit · spiirt · spiritt · spirrit · spirti · sppirit · spriit

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "reloaded" for "spirit" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "reloaded" is a verb and "spirit" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "reloaded" or "spirit" show up more?
"spirit" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,483 in our German list, against #41,421 for "reloaded". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "reloaded" and "spirit". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "reloaded" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "spirit" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #922,205 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "reloaded" and "spirit" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs reloaded". 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 #922,205 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