reportsvstempsTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#21,038
“reports” frequency rank
#37,813
“temps” frequency rank
58851
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature reports temps
Definition Plural des Substantivs report 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs temp

Letter map: reports vs temps

Shared letters muted; letters that set reports and temps apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. reports runs 7 letters (CVCVCCC) against temps's 5 (CVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
reports
5 ch
temps

Role in the sentence - reports and temps

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: reports is anoun and tempsaverb. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58851, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

reports is recorded at frequency rank #21,038, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. temps is at rank #37,813, 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 58851, this pair ranks #846,907 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of reports vs temps

Shared letters: epst. Private to "reports": or. Private to "temps": m.

"reports" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCC  ·  "temps" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • reportserports · reoprts · reporrts · reporst · reportss · reportts · repotrs · repports
  • tempsetmps · temmps · tempps · tempss · temsp · tepms · tmeps · ttemps

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "reports" and "temps" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "reports" is a noun and "temps" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "reports" or "temps" show up more?
"reports" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,038 in our German list, against #37,813 for "temps". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "reports" and "temps".

  • Full dictionary entry for "reports" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "temps" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #846,907 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "reports" and "temps" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs temps". 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 #846,907 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