veravsVerenaConfusable pair

Quick tell: vera is a adjective, Verena is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#8,302
“vera” frequency rank
#17,754
“Verena” frequency rank
26056
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature vera Verena
Definition wahr, regelrecht weiblicher Vorname

Letter map: vera vs Verena

Shared letters muted; letters that set vera and Verena apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

4 ch
vera
6 ch
Verena

Part-of-speech tell for vera / Verena

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: vera is anadjective and Verenaaname. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26056, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vera is recorded at frequency rank #8,302, classified as anadj, pronounced […]. Verena is at rank #17,754, tagged as aname, pronounced [veˈʁeːna].

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 26056, this pair ranks #1,823,862 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of vera vs Verena

Shared letters: aerv. Private to "vera": -. Private to "Verena": n.

"vera" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "Verena" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • veraevra · vear · verra · vrea · vvera
  • Verenaevrena · veerna · verean · verenna · vernea · verrena · vreena · vverena

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "vera" for "Verena" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "vera" is an adjective and "Verena" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "vera" or "Verena" show up more?
"vera" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,302 in our German list, against #17,754 for "Verena". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "vera" and "Verena". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "vera" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Verena" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,823,862 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "vera" and "Verena" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs vera". 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 #1,823,862 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