rohenvsroleTell them apart

Quick tell: rohen is a adjective, role is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“rohen” is an adjective and “role” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#31,759
“rohen” frequency rank
#35,998
“role” frequency rank
67757
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rohen role
Definition Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs roh die Rolle

Letter map: rohen vs role

Shared letters muted; letters that set rohen and role apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
rohen
4 ch
role

Part-of-speech tell for rohen / role

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: rohen is anadjective and roleanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 67757, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rohen is recorded at frequency rank #31,759, classified as anadj, pronounced [ˈʁoːən]. role is at rank #35,998, 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 67757, this pair ranks #529,698 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of rohen vs role

Shared letters: eor. Private to "rohen": hn. Private to "role": l.

"rohen" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "role" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • rohenrhoen · roehn · rohenn · rohhen · rohne · rrohen
  • roleorle · rloe · roel · rrole

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "rohen" and "role" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "rohen" is an adjective and "role" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "rohen" or "role" show up more?
"rohen" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #31,759 in our German list, against #35,998 for "role". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "rohen" and "role". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "rohen" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "role" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #529,698 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rohen" and "role" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs role". 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 #529,698 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