ReportvsrepostWhat's the difference?

Which to use

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

#6,842
“Report” frequency rank
#40,790
“repost” frequency rank
47632
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Report repost
Definition ausführliche Beschreibung eines Geschehens oder Sachverhalts; Bericht mit vielen Einzelheiten Repost

Letter map: Report vs repost

Shared letters muted; letters that set Report and repost apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.

6 ch
Report
6 ch
repost

Corpus notes: Report and repost

Report and repost 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 differ by a single letter - r in “Report” becomes s in “repost”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47632, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Report is recorded at frequency rank #6,842, classified as anoun, pronounced [ʁeˈpɔʁt]. repost is at rank #40,790, 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 47632, this pair ranks #1,277,520 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Report vs repost

Shared letters: eoprt. Private to "Report": -. Private to "repost": s.

"Report" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC  ·  "repost" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Reporterport · reoprt · reporrt · reportt · repotr · repport · reprot · rpeort
  • reposterpost · reopst · reposst · repostt · repots · reppost · repsot · rpeost

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Report" and "repost" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by a single letter - r in “Report” becomes s in “repost”, 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 "Report" or "repost" show up more?
"Report" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,842 in our German list, against #40,790 for "repost". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "Report" and "repost". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Report" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "repost" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,277,520 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Report" and "repost" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs repost". 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 #1,277,520 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