reportsvsvoicesConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#21,038
“reports” frequency rank
#37,294
“voices” frequency rank
58332
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature reports voices
Definition Plural des Substantivs report 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs voice

Letter map: reports vs voices

Shared letters muted; letters that set reports and voices apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. reports runs 7 letters (CVCVCCC) against voices's 6 (CVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
reports
6 ch
voices

Part-of-speech tell for reports / voices

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: reports is anoun and voicesaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58332, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

reports is recorded at frequency rank #21,038, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. voices is at rank #37,294, 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 58332, this pair ranks #866,881 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of reports vs voices

Shared letters: eos. Private to "reports": prt. Private to "voices": civ.

"reports" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCC  ·  "voices" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • reportserports · reoprts · reporrts · reporst · reportss · reportts · repotrs · repports
  • voicesovices · vioces · vocies · voicces · voicess · voicse · voiecs · vvoices

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "reports" and "voices" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "reports" is a noun and "voices" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "reports" or "voices" show up more?
"reports" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,038 in our German list, against #37,294 for "voices". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "reports" and "voices". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "reports" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "voices" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #866,881 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "reports" and "voices" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs voices". 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 #866,881 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