StuntvssungWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: Stunt is a noun, sung is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#29,352
“Stunt” frequency rank
#27,077
“sung” frequency rank
56429
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Stunt sung
Definition gefährliche oder akrobatische Aktion, die besondere Geschicklichkeit, Aufwand und/oder Kenntnisse erfordert Partizip Perfekt (past participle) des Verbs sing

Letter map: Stunt vs sung

Shared letters muted; letters that set Stunt and sung apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
Stunt
4 ch
sung

Part-of-speech tell for Stunt / sung

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Stunt is anoun and sungaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56429, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Stunt is recorded at frequency rank #29,352, classified as anoun, pronounced [stant]. sung is at rank #27,077, tagged as averb, 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 56429, this pair ranks #940,502 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Stunt vs sung

Shared letters: nsu. Private to "Stunt": t. Private to "sung": g.

"Stunt" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC  ·  "sung" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Stuntsstunt · stnut · sttunt · stunnt · stuntt · stutn · sutnt · tsunt
  • sungsnug · ssung · sugn · sungg · sunng · usng

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Stunt" and "sung" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Stunt" is a noun and "sung" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Stunt" or "sung" show up more?
"sung" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #27,077 in our German list, against #29,352 for "Stunt". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "Stunt" and "sung".

  • Full dictionary entry for "Stunt" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "sung" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #940,502 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Stunt" and "sung" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "strunz vs Stunt". 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 #940,502 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