smooth vs times, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#49,255
“smooth” frequency rank: #5,431
“times” frequency rank: 54686
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	smooth	times
Definition	glatt	Plural des Substantivs time

Letter map: smooth vs times

Shared letters muted; letters that set smooth and times apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

6 ch

smooth

5 ch

times

Part-of-speech tell for smooth / times

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: smooth is anadjective and timesanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54686, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

smooth is recorded at frequency rank #49,255, classified as anadj, pronounced […]. times is at rank #5,431, 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 54686, this pair ranks #1,009,148 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of smooth vs times

Shared letters: mst. Private to "smooth": ho. Private to "times": ei.

"smooth" · 6 letters · shape CCVVCC · "times" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

smooth ← msooth · smmooth · smooht · smoothh · smootth · smoth · smotoh · somoth
times ← itmes · tiems · timess · timmes · timse · tmies · ttimes

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "smooth" and "times" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "smooth" is an adjective and "times" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "smooth" vs "times" - which ranks higher?

"times" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,431 in our German list, against #49,255 for "smooth". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "smooth" and "times". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "smooth" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "times" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,009,148 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"smooth" and "times" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs smooth". 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 #1,009,148 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.