stopvsStrohTell them apart

Quick tell: stop is a intj, Stroh is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“stop” is an intj and “Stroh” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#6,109
“stop” frequency rank
#11,536
“Stroh” frequency rank
17645
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature stop Stroh
Definition Aufforderung auf Verkehrszeichen, Drucktasten oder dergleichen zum Anhalten beziehungsweise zum sofortigen Beenden von etwas abgedroschene Getreidehalme

Letter map: stop vs Stroh

Shared letters muted; letters that set stop and Stroh apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch
stop
5 ch
Stroh

Part-of-speech tell for stop / Stroh

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: stop is anintj and Strohanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17645, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

stop is recorded at frequency rank #6,109, classified as anintj, pronounced […]. Stroh is at rank #11,536, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ʃtʁoː].

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 17645, this pair ranks #1,925,555 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of stop vs Stroh

Shared letters: ost. Private to "stop": p. Private to "Stroh": hr.

"stop" · 4 letters · shape CCVC  ·  "Stroh" · 5 letters · shape CCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • stopsotp · sstop · sttop · tsop
  • Strohsrtoh · sstroh · storh · strho · strohh · strroh · sttroh · tsroh

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "stop" for "Stroh" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "stop" is an intj and "Stroh" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "stop" or "Stroh"?
"stop" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,109 in our German list, against #11,536 for "Stroh". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "stop" and "Stroh". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "stop" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Stroh" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,925,555 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "stop" and "Stroh" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs stop". 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 #1,925,555 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