reportingvssedWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: reporting is a verb, sed is a conjunction, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“reporting” is a verb and “sed” is a conjunction - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#39,594
“reporting” frequency rank
#5,221
“sed” frequency rank
44815
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature reporting sed
Definition Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs report aber, wobei, sondern; jedoch

Letter map: reporting vs sed

Shared letters muted; letters that set reporting and sed apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

9 ch
reporting
3 ch
sed

Role in the sentence - reporting and sed

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: reporting is averb and sedaconjunction. On the page they differ by 6 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44815, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

reporting is recorded at frequency rank #39,594, classified as averb, pronounced […]. sed is at rank #5,221, tagged as aconj, 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 44815, this pair ranks #1,373,842 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of reporting vs sed

Shared letters: e. Private to "reporting": ginoprt. Private to "sed": ds.

"reporting" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCC  ·  "sed" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • reportingerporting · reoprting · reporitng · reporrting · reportign · reportingg · reportinng · reportnig

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "reporting" for "sed" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "reporting" is a verb and "sed" a conjunction, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "reporting" or "sed" show up more?
"sed" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,221 in our German list, against #39,594 for "reporting". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "reporting" vs "sed" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "reporting" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "sed" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,373,842 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "reporting" and "sed" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs reporting". 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 #1,373,842 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