TagevstapesWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#371
“Tage” frequency rank
#41,496
“tapes” frequency rank
41867
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Tage tapes
Definition Variante für den Dativ Singular des Substantivs Tag 2. Person Singular Präsens Konjunktiv des Verbs tapar

Letter map: Tage vs tapes

Shared letters muted; letters that set Tage and tapes apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. Tage runs 4 letters (CVCV) against tapes's 5 (CVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
Tage
5 ch
tapes

Part-of-speech tell for Tage / tapes

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Tage is anoun and tapesaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41867, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Tage is recorded at frequency rank #371, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈtaːɡə]. tapes is at rank #41,496, 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 41867, this pair ranks #1,466,674 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Tage vs tapes

Shared letters: aet. Private to "Tage": g. Private to "tapes": ps.

"Tage" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "tapes" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Tage ← atge · taeg · tagge · tgae · ttage
  • tapes ← atpes · taeps · tapess · tappes · tapse · tpaes · ttapes

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Tage" and "tapes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Tage" is a noun and "tapes" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Tage" or "tapes" show up more?
"Tage" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #371 in our German list, against #41,496 for "tapes". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "Tage" and "tapes".

  • Full dictionary entry for "Tage" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "tapes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,466,674 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Tage" and "tapes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs tapes". 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 #1,466,674 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