SachervsSucheTell them apart

Quick tell: Sacher is a name, Suche is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#46,952
“Sacher” frequency rank
#693
“Suche” frequency rank
47645
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Sacher Suche
Definition deutschsprachiger Nachname, Familienname Prozess der Lokalisierung eines gewünschten Objektes; Bemühung mit dem Ziel, etwas Bestimmtes zu finden

Letter map: Sacher vs Suche

Shared letters muted; letters that set Sacher and Suche apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. Sacher runs 6 letters (CVCCVC) against Suche's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
Sacher
5 ch
Suche

Role in the sentence - Sacher and Suche

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Sacher is aname and Sucheanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47645, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Sacher is recorded at frequency rank #46,952, classified as aname, pronounced […]. Suche is at rank #693, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈzuːxə].

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 47645, this pair ranks #1,277,038 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Sacher vs Suche

Shared letters: cehs. Private to "Sacher": ar. Private to "Suche": u.

"Sacher" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC  ·  "Suche" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Sacherascher · saccher · sacehr · sacherr · sachher · sachre · sahcer · scaher
  • Suchescuhe · ssuche · sucche · suceh · suchhe · suhce · usche

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Sacher" and "Suche" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Sacher" is a name and "Suche" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Sacher" or "Suche" show up more?
"Suche" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #693 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 "Suche". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Sacher" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Suche" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,277,038 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Sacher" and "Suche" 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 #1,277,038 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