SiebervssiebtenWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#36,624
“Sieber” frequency rank
#9,263
“siebten” frequency rank
45887
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Sieber siebten
Definition deutschsprachiger Familienname, Nachname Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs siebte

Letter map: Sieber vs siebten

Shared letters muted; letters that set Sieber and siebten apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.

6 ch
Sieber
7 ch
siebten

Part-of-speech tell for Sieber / siebten

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Sieber is aname and siebtenanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45887, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Sieber is recorded at frequency rank #36,624, classified as aname, pronounced […]. siebten is at rank #9,263, tagged as anadj, pronounced [ˈziːptn̩].

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 45887, this pair ranks #1,337,769 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Sieber vs siebten

Shared letters: beis. Private to "Sieber": r. Private to "siebten": nt.

"Sieber" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC  ·  "siebten" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Sieberiseber · seiber · sibeer · siebber · sieberr · siebre · sieebr · ssieber
  • siebtenisebten · seibten · sibeten · siebbten · siebetn · siebtenn · siebtne · siebtten

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Sieber" for "siebten" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Sieber" is a name and "siebten" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Sieber" vs "siebten" - which ranks higher?
"siebten" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #9,263 in our German list, against #36,624 for "Sieber". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "Sieber" and "siebten". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Sieber" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "siebten" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,337,769 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Sieber" and "siebten" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs Sieber". 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 #1,337,769 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