stopvswennsTell them apart

Quick tell: stop is a intj, wenns is an abbrev, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#6,109
“stop” frequency rank
#5,445
“wenns” frequency rank
11554
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature stop wenns
Definition Aufforderung auf Verkehrszeichen, Drucktasten oder dergleichen zum Anhalten beziehungsweise zum sofortigen Beenden von etwas wenn es

Letter map: stop vs wenns

Shared letters muted; letters that set stop and wenns apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. stop runs 4 letters (CCVC) against wenns's 5 (CVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
stop
5 ch
wenns

Role in the sentence - stop and wenns

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: stop is anintj and wennsanabbrev. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11554, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

stop is recorded at frequency rank #6,109, classified as anintj, pronounced […]. wenns is at rank #5,445, 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 11554, this pair ranks #1,969,254 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of stop vs wenns

Shared letters: s. Private to "stop": opt. Private to "wenns": enw.

"stop" · 4 letters · shape CCVC  ·  "wenns" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • stopsotp · sstop · sttop · tsop
  • wennsewnns · wennss · wens · wensn · wnens · wwenns

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "stop" for "wenns" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "stop" is an intj and "wenns" an abbrev, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "stop" or "wenns"?
"wenns" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,445 in our German list, against #6,109 for "stop". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "stop" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "wenns" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,969,254 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "stop" and "wenns" 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 #1,969,254 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