währt vs warm, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“währt” is a verb and “warm” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#30,876
“währt” frequency rank: #2,569
“warm” frequency rank: 33445
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	währt	warm
Definition	3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs währen	von hoher Temperatur (zwischen lau und heiß)

Where the spellings diverge

Shared letters are muted; the letters that actually set währt and warm apart are highlighted. They share 2 letters in sequence, which is exactly why the eye skips the difference.

5 ch

währt

4 ch

warm

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: währt is [vɛːɐ̯t] while warm is [vaʁm]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 33445, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

währt is recorded at frequency rank #30,876, classified as averb, pronounced [vɛːɐ̯t]. warm is at rank #2,569, tagged as anadj, pronounced [vaʁm].

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 33445, this pair ranks #1,685,848 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of währt vs warm

Shared letters: rw. Private to "währt": htä. Private to "warm": am.

"währt" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC · "warm" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

warm ← awrm · wamr · warmm · warrm · wram · wwarm

Frequency comparison

währt#30,876

warm#2,569

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "währt" and "warm" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "währt" is a verb and "warm" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "währt" or "warm"?

"warm" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,569 in our German list, against #30,876 for "währt". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Remembering währt vs warm

The fastest way to pick the right one every time.

Check the role first: if you need a verb, it's “währt”; for an adjective, it's “warm”.
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