teilsvstripsWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: teils is a adverb, trips is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“teils” is an adverb and “trips” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#1,945
“teils” frequency rank
#34,406
“trips” frequency rank
36351
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature teils trips
Definition nicht alles zusammen betreffend, sondern nur einen Teil 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs trip

Letter map: teils vs trips

Shared letters muted; letters that set teils and trips apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
teils
5 ch
trips

Role in the sentence - teils and trips

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: teils is anadverb and tripsaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36351, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

teils is recorded at frequency rank #1,945, classified as anadv, pronounced [taɪ̯ls]. trips is at rank #34,406, 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 36351, this pair ranks #1,617,777 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of teils vs trips

Shared letters: ist. Private to "teils": el. Private to "trips": pr.

"teils" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC  ·  "trips" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • teilsetils · teills · teilss · teisl · telis · tiels · tteils
  • tripsrtips · tirps · tripps · tripss · trisp · trpis · trrips · ttrips

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "teils" and "trips" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "teils" is an adverb and "trips" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "teils" or "trips" show up more?
"teils" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,945 in our German list, against #34,406 for "trips". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "teils" and "trips". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "teils" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "trips" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,617,777 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "teils" and "trips" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs trips". 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 #1,617,777 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