stimmtvsstimmtsConfusable pair

Quick tell: stimmt is a verb, stimmts is an abbrev, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“stimmt” is a verb and “stimmts” is an abbrev - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#607
“stimmt” frequency rank
#36,649
“stimmts” frequency rank
37256
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature stimmt stimmts
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs stimmen stimmt es

Letter map: stimmt vs stimmts

Shared letters muted; letters that set stimmt and stimmts apart highlighted. Shared run: 6. stimmt runs 6 letters (CCVCCC) against stimmts's 7 (CCVCCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
stimmt
7 ch
stimmts

Part-of-speech tell for stimmt / stimmts

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: stimmt is averb and stimmtsanabbrev. On the page they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “stimmt” sits inside “stimmts”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37256, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

stimmt is recorded at frequency rank #607, classified as averb, pronounced [ʃtɪmt]. stimmts is at rank #36,649, tagged as anabbrev, 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 37256, this pair ranks #1,594,875 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of stimmt vs stimmts

Shared letters: imst. Private to "stimmt": -. Private to "stimmts": -.

"stimmt" · 6 letters · shape CCVCCC  ·  "stimmts" · 7 letters · shape CCVCCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • stimmt ← sitmmt · sstimmt · stimmtt · stimt · stimtm · stmimt · sttimmt · tsimmt
  • stimmts ← sitmmts · sstimmts · stimmtss · stimmtts · stimtms · stimts · stmimts · sttimmts

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "stimmt" for "stimmts" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "stimmt" is a verb and "stimmts" an abbrev, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "stimmt" or "stimmts" show up more?
"stimmt" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #607 in our German list, against #36,649 for "stimmts". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pair "stimmt" vs "stimmts" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "stimmt" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "stimmts" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,594,875 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "stimmt" and "stimmts" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs stimmts". 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 #1,594,875 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