Which to use
“informed” is a verb and “informer” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #3,308
- “informed” frequency rank
- #29,318
- “informer” frequency rank
- 32626
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | informed | informer |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | simple past and past participle of inform | One who informs someone else about something. |
Letter map: informed vs informer
Shared letters muted; letters that set informed and informer apart highlighted. Shared run: 7.
Part-of-speech tell for informed / informer
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: informed is averb and informeranoun. On the page they differ by a single letter - d in “informed” becomes r in “informer”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32626, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
informed is recorded at frequency rank #3,308, classified as averb, pronounced /ɪnˈfɔɹmd/. informer is at rank #29,318, tagged as anoun.
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 32626, this pair ranks #336,264 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of informed vs informer
Shared letters: efimnor. Private to "informed": d. Private to "informer": -.
"informed" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC · "informer" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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Frequency check: "informed" vs "informer" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
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- Full dictionary entry for "informed" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "informer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #336,264 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "informed" and "informer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "informal vs informer". 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 #336,264 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.