TerryvsteureWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Terry is a name, teure is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Terry” is a name and “teure” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#13,495
“Terry” frequency rank
#7,118
“teure” frequency rank
20613
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Terry teure
Definition weiblicher Vorname Nominativ Singular Femininum Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs teuer

Letter map: Terry vs teure

Shared letters muted; letters that set Terry and teure apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
Terry
5 ch
teure

Role in the sentence - Terry and teure

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Terry is aname and teureanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20613, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Terry is recorded at frequency rank #13,495, classified as aname, pronounced […]. teure is at rank #7,118, tagged as anadj, pronounced [ˈtɔɪ̯ʁə].

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 20613, this pair ranks #1,895,732 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Terry vs teure

Shared letters: ert. Private to "Terry": y. Private to "teure": u.

"Terry" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "teure" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Terryetrry · terryy · tery · teryr · trery · tterry
  • teureeture · tteure · tuere

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Terry" and "teure" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Terry" is a name and "teure" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Terry" or "teure" show up more?
"teure" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,118 in our German list, against #13,495 for "Terry". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "Terry" vs "teure" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Terry" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "teure" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,895,732 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Terry" and "teure" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs Terry". 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 #1,895,732 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