soft vs stopft, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“soft” is an adjective and “stopft” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#16,832
“soft” frequency rank: #41,480
“stopft” frequency rank: 58312
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	soft	stopft
Definition	weich	2. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs stopfen

Letter map: soft vs stopft

Shared letters muted; letters that set soft and stopft apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

4 ch

soft

6 ch

stopft

Grammar separator: soft vs stopft

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: soft is anadjective and stopftaverb. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58312, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

soft is recorded at frequency rank #16,832, classified as anadj, pronounced […]. stopft is at rank #41,480, tagged as averb, pronounced [ʃtɔp͡ft].

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 58312, this pair ranks #867,664 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of soft vs stopft

Shared letters: fost. Private to "soft": -. Private to "stopft": p.

"soft" · 4 letters · shape CVCC · "stopft" · 6 letters · shape CCVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

soft ← osft · sfot · sofft · softt · sotf · ssoft
stopft ← sotpft · sstopft · stofpt · stopfft · stopftt · stoppft · stoptf · stpoft

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "soft" for "stopft" ever safe?

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

In ordinary German text, does "soft" or "stopft" show up more?

"soft" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,832 in our German list, against #41,480 for "stopft". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "soft" and "stopft". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "soft" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "stopft" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #867,664 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"soft" and "stopft" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "stöhnt vs stopft". 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 #867,664 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.