vitrovsworkingConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#39,117
“vitro” frequency rank
#19,089
“working” frequency rank
58206
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature vitro working
Definition in der Regel durchsichtige chemische Verbindung, Glas Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs work

Letter map: vitro vs working

Shared letters muted; letters that set vitro and working apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. vitro runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against working's 7 (CVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
vitro
7 ch
working

Role in the sentence - vitro and working

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: vitro is anoun and workingaverb. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58206, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vitro is recorded at frequency rank #39,117, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. working is at rank #19,089, 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 58206, this pair ranks #871,664 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of vitro vs working

Shared letters: ior. Private to "vitro": tv. Private to "working": gknw.

"vitro" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "working" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • vitroivtro · virto · vitor · vitrro · vittro · vtiro · vvitro
  • workingowrking · wokring · worikng · workign · workingg · workinng · workking · worknig

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "vitro" for "working" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "vitro" is a noun and "working" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "vitro" or "working" show up more?
"working" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #19,089 in our German list, against #39,117 for "vitro". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "vitro" vs "working" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "vitro" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "working" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #871,664 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "vitro" and "working" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs vitro". 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 #871,664 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