ricevsrichtWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#23,680
“rice” frequency rank
#37,164
“richt” frequency rank
60844
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rice richt
Definition Reis 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs richten

Letter map: rice vs richt

Shared letters muted; letters that set rice and richt apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. rice runs 4 letters (CVCV) against richt's 5 (CVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
rice
5 ch
richt

Role in the sentence - rice and richt

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: rice is anoun and richtaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60844, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rice is recorded at frequency rank #23,680, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. richt is at rank #37,164, tagged as averb, pronounced [ʁɪçt].

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 60844, this pair ranks #771,826 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of rice vs richt

Shared letters: cir. Private to "rice": e. Private to "richt": ht.

"rice" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "richt" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • rice ← irce · rcie · ricce · riec · rrice
  • richt ← ircht · rciht · riccht · richht · richtt · ricth · rihct · rricht

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "rice" and "richt" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "rice" is a noun and "richt" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "rice" or "richt" show up more?
"rice" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #23,680 in our German list, against #37,164 for "richt". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "rice" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "richt" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #771,826 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rice" and "richt" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rech vs richt". 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 #771,826 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