SachervsschwerConfusable pair

Quick tell: Sacher is a name, schwer is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Sacher” is a name and “schwer” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#46,952
“Sacher” frequency rank
#446
“schwer” frequency rank
47398
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Sacher schwer
Definition deutschsprachiger Nachname, Familienname ein hohes Gewicht habend

Letter map: Sacher vs schwer

Shared letters muted; letters that set Sacher and schwer apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.

6 ch
Sacher
6 ch
schwer

Part-of-speech tell for Sacher / schwer

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Sacher is aname and schweranadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47398, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Sacher is recorded at frequency rank #46,952, classified as aname, pronounced […]. schwer is at rank #446, tagged as anadj, pronounced [ʃveːɐ̯].

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 47398, this pair ranks #1,285,669 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Sacher vs schwer

Shared letters: cehrs. Private to "Sacher": a. Private to "schwer": w.

"Sacher" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC  ·  "schwer" · 6 letters · shape CCCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Sacherascher · saccher · sacehr · sacherr · sachher · sachre · sahcer · scaher
  • schwercshwer · scchwer · schewr · schhwer · schwerr · schwre · schwwer · scwher

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Sacher" and "schwer" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Sacher" is a name and "schwer" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Sacher" vs "schwer" - which ranks higher?
"schwer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #446 in our German list, against #46,952 for "Sacher". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "Sacher" and "schwer". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Sacher" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "schwer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,285,669 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Sacher" and "schwer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs Sacher". 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 #1,285,669 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