RevierevsreviewsTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#47,695
“Reviere” frequency rank
#16,812
“reviews” frequency rank
64507
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Reviere reviews
Definition Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Revier 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs review

Letter map: Reviere vs reviews

Shared letters muted; letters that set Reviere and reviews apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. Reviere (CVCVVCV) and reviews (CVCVVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
Reviere
7 ch
reviews

Part-of-speech tell for Reviere / reviews

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Reviere is anoun and reviewsaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 64507, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Reviere is recorded at frequency rank #47,695, classified as anoun, pronounced [ʁeˈviːʁə]. reviews is at rank #16,812, 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 64507, this pair ranks #639,107 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Reviere vs reviews

Shared letters: eirv. Private to "Reviere": -. Private to "reviews": sw.

"Reviere" · 7 letters · shape CVCVVCV  ·  "reviews" · 7 letters · shape CVCVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Reviere ← erviere · reivere · reveire · revieer · revierre · reviree · revviere · rreviere
  • reviews ← erviews · reivews · reveiws · reviesw · reviewss · reviewws · reviwes · revviews

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Reviere" and "reviews" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Reviere" is a noun and "reviews" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Reviere" or "reviews" show up more?
"reviews" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,812 in our German list, against #47,695 for "Reviere". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "Reviere" vs "reviews" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Reviere" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "reviews" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #639,107 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Reviere" and "reviews" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Revers vs Reviere". 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 #639,107 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