vom vs Voss, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“vom” is an abbrev and “Voss” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#88
“vom” frequency rank: #10,773
“Voss” frequency rank: 10861
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	vom	Voss
Definition	von dem	Fuchs

Letter map: vom vs Voss

Shared letters muted; letters that set vom and Voss apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

3 ch

vom

4 ch

Voss

Role in the sentence - vom and Voss

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: vom is anabbrev and Vossanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10861, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vom is recorded at frequency rank #88, classified as anabbrev, pronounced [fɔm]. Voss is at rank #10,773, tagged as anoun, 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 10861, this pair ranks #1,972,954 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of vom vs Voss

Shared letters: ov. Private to "vom": m. Private to "Voss": s.

"vom" · 3 letters · shape CVC · "Voss" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

Voss ← ovss · voß · vsos · vvoss

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "vom" for "Voss" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "vom" is an abbrev and "Voss" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

In ordinary German text, does "vom" or "Voss" show up more?

"vom" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #88 in our German list, against #10,773 for "Voss". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pair "vom" vs "Voss" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

Full dictionary entry for "vom" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "Voss" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,972,954 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"vom" and "Voss" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs Voss". 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 #1,972,954 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.