sources vs termine, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“sources” is a verb and “termine” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#47,003
“sources” frequency rank: #4,469
“termine” frequency rank: 51472
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	sources	termine
Definition	3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs source	der Termin

Letter map: sources vs termine

Shared letters muted; letters that set sources and termine apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

7 ch

sources

7 ch

termine

Part-of-speech tell for sources / termine

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: sources is averb and termineanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 7 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51472, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sources is recorded at frequency rank #47,003, classified as averb, pronounced […]. termine is at rank #4,469, 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 51472, this pair ranks #1,134,256 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of sources vs termine

Shared letters: er. Private to "sources": cosu. Private to "termine": imnt.

"sources" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC · "termine" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

sources ← osurces · soruces · soucres · sourcces · sourcess · sourcse · sourecs · sourrces
termine ← etrmine · temrine · terimne · termien · terminne · termmine · termnie · terrmine

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "sources" and "termine" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "sources" is a verb and "termine" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

In ordinary German text, does "sources" or "termine" show up more?

"termine" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,469 in our German list, against #47,003 for "sources". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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Full dictionary entry for "sources" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "termine" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,134,256 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"sources" and "termine" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs sources". 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 #1,134,256 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.