Which to use
“shame” is a verb and “stade” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #43,491
- “shame” frequency rank
- #15,485
- “stade” frequency rank
- 58976
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | shame | stade |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | jemanden beschämen | Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stad |
Letter map: shame vs stade
Shared letters muted; letters that set shame and stade apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. shame and stade follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Part-of-speech tell for shame / stade
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: shame is averb and stadeanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58976, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
shame is recorded at frequency rank #43,491, classified as averb, pronounced […]. stade is at rank #15,485, tagged as anadj, pronounced [ˈʃtaːdə].
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 58976, this pair ranks #842,015 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of shame vs stade
Shared letters: aes. Private to "shame": hm. Private to "stade": dt.
"shame" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV · "stade" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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Frequency check: "shame" vs "stade" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
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- Full dictionary entry for "shame" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "stade" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #842,015 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "shame" and "stade" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs shame". 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 #842,015 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.