sung vs Swing, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#27,077
“sung” frequency rank: #14,683
“Swing” frequency rank: 41760
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	sung	Swing
Definition	Partizip Perfekt (past participle) des Verbs sing	besonderer Rhythmus von Jazz und Tanzmusik

Letter map: sung vs Swing

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

4 ch

sung

5 ch

Swing

Part-of-speech tell for sung / Swing

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: sung is averb and Swinganoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41760, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sung is recorded at frequency rank #27,077, classified as averb, pronounced […]. Swing is at rank #14,683, tagged as anoun, pronounced [svɪŋ].

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 41760, this pair ranks #1,469,910 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of sung vs Swing

Shared letters: gns. Private to "sung": u. Private to "Swing": iw.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

sung ← snug · ssung · sugn · sungg · sunng · usng
Swing ← siwng · sswing · swign · swingg · swinng · swnig · swwing · wsing

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "sung" for "Swing" ever safe?

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

In ordinary German text, does "sung" or "Swing" show up more?

"Swing" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,683 in our German list, against #27,077 for "sung". 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 "sung" and "Swing".

Full dictionary entry for "sung" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "Swing" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,469,910 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"sung" and "Swing" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs sung". 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 #1,469,910 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.