reviewsvsriceWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#16,812
“reviews” frequency rank
#23,680
“rice” frequency rank
40492
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature reviews rice
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs review Reis

Letter map: reviews vs rice

Shared letters muted; letters that set reviews and rice apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. reviews runs 7 letters (CVCVVCC) against rice's 4 (CVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
reviews
4 ch
rice

Part-of-speech tell for reviews / rice

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: reviews is averb and riceanoun. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40492, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

reviews is recorded at frequency rank #16,812, classified as averb, pronounced […]. rice is at rank #23,680, 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 40492, this pair ranks #1,506,893 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of reviews vs rice

Shared letters: eir. Private to "reviews": svw. Private to "rice": c.

"reviews" · 7 letters · shape CVCVVCC  ·  "rice" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • reviewserviews · reivews · reveiws · reviesw · reviewss · reviewws · reviwes · revviews
  • riceirce · rcie · ricce · riec · rrice

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "reviews" and "rice" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "reviews" is a verb and "rice" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "reviews" vs "rice" - which ranks higher?
"reviews" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,812 in our German list, against #23,680 for "rice". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "reviews" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "rice" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,506,893 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "reviews" and "rice" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs rice". 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 #1,506,893 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