watersvswebersTell them apart

Quick tell: waters is a unknown, webers is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“waters” is an unknown and “webers” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#36,115
“waters” frequency rank
#38,517
“webers” frequency rank
74632
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature waters webers
Definition Plural des Substantives water Plural des Substantivs weber

Letter map: waters vs webers

Shared letters muted; letters that set waters and webers apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

6 ch
waters
6 ch
webers

Grammar separator: waters vs webers

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: waters is anunknown and webersanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 74632, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

waters is recorded at frequency rank #36,115, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. webers is at rank #38,517, 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 74632, this pair ranks #328,380 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of waters vs webers

Shared letters: ersw. Private to "waters": at. Private to "webers": b.

"waters" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC  ·  "webers" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • watersawters · waetrs · waterrs · waterss · watesr · watres · watters · wtaers
  • webersewbers · wbeers · webbers · weberrs · weberss · webesr · webres · weebrs

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "waters" for "webers" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "waters" is an unknown and "webers" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "waters" or "webers" show up more?
"waters" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #36,115 in our German list, against #38,517 for "webers". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "waters" and "webers". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "waters" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "webers" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #328,380 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "waters" and "webers" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs webers". 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 #328,380 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