times vs tips, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#5,431
“times” frequency rank: #21,448
“tips” frequency rank: 26879
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	times	tips
Definition	Plural des Substantivs time	3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs tip

Letter map: times vs tips

Shared letters muted; letters that set times and tips apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch

times

4 ch

tips

Part-of-speech tell for times / tips

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: times is anoun and tipsaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26879, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

times is recorded at frequency rank #5,431, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. tips is at rank #21,448, 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 26879, this pair ranks #1,810,918 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of times vs tips

Shared letters: ist. Private to "times": em. Private to "tips": p.

"times" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "tips" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

times ← itmes · tiems · timess · timmes · timse · tmies · ttimes
tips ← itps · tipss · tisp · tpis · ttips

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "times" and "tips" mean the same thing in a sentence?

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

Which is more common, "times" or "tips"?

"times" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,431 in our German list, against #21,448 for "tips". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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Full dictionary entry for "times" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "tips" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,810,918 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"times" and "tips" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs tips". 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 #1,810,918 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.